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shuffling |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, a. 1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. ``A shuffling nag.'' --Shak. 2. Evasive; as a shuffling excuse. --T. Burnet. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, v. In a shuffling manner. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shuffled}; p. pr & vb n. {Shuffling}.] [Originally the same word as scuffle, and properly a freq. of shove. See {Shove}, and {Scuffle}.] 1. To shove one way and the other to push from one to another; as to shuffle money from hand to hand. 2. 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. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. --Rombler. 3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. --Dryden. {To shuffe off}, to push off to rid one's self of {To shuffe up}, to throw together in hastel to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as he shuffled up a peace. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shuffling adj : moving about or around "the milling crowd" [syn: {milling}] n 1: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet [syn: {shamble}, {shambling}, {shuffle}] 2: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: {shuffle}, {make}]
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