\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.

\Shuf"fle\, v. i.
1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to
   shuffle and cut.
2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade
   questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.
         I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity,
         am fain to shuffle.                   --Shak.
3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift.
         Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself.
                                               --Shak.
4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape
   the feet in walking or dancing.
         The aged creature came Shuffling along with
         ivory-headed wand.                    --Keats.
Syn: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift;
     sophisticate; juggle.

\Shuf"fle\, n.
1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly,
   dragging motion.
         The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter.
                                               --Bentley.
2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion.
         The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and
         shuffles.                             --L'Estrange.