2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. I muself, . . . 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; siphisticate; juggle.
SHUFFLE
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.
SHUFFLEBOARD
Shuf"fle*board`, n.
Defn: See Shovelboard.
SHUFFLECAP
Shuf"fle*cap`