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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, adjective
1. Moving with a dragging, scraping step. ''A shuffling nag.'' --Shak.
2. Evasive; as, a shuffling excuse. --T. Burnet.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Shuffling \Shuf"fling\, v. In a shuffling manner.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
shuffling
noun
1: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: {shamble}, {shambling}, {shuffle}]
2: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: {shuffle}, {make}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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