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Shuffle
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relative positions of, as of the cards in a pack.
(2):
(v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
(3):
(v. t.) To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
(4):
(v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
(5):
(v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
(6):
(v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.
(7):
(n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
(8):
(v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.
(9):
(n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Shuffle'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/s/shuffle.html. 1828.
