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- English Word Shieling Definition A hut or shelter for shepherds of fishers. See Sheeling.
- English Word Shiff Definition To divide; to distribute.
- English Word Shiff Definition To make a change or changes; to change position; to move; to veer; to substitute one thing for another; -- used in the various senses of the transitive verb.
- English Word Shiff Definition To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
- English Word Shiff Definition To practice indirect or evasive methods.
- English Word Shiff Definition To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.
- English Word Shift Definition To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
- English Word Shift Definition To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
- English Word Shift Definition To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
- English Word Shift Definition To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
- English Word Shift Definition To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
- English Word Shift Definition To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
- English Word Shift Definition The act of shifting.
- English Word Shift Definition The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
- English Word Shift Definition Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
- English Word Shift Definition The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
- English Word Shift Definition In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- English Word Shift Definition A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- English Word Shift Definition A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
- English Word Shiftable Definition Admitting of being shifted.
- English Word Shifted Definition of Shift
- English Word Shifter Definition One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
- English Word Shifter Definition An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- English Word Shifter Definition An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- English Word Shifter Definition A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- English Word Shiftiness Definition The quality or state of being shifty.
- English Word Shifting Definition of Shift
- English Word Shifting Definition Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
- English Word Shifting Definition Adapted or used for shifting anything.
- English Word Shiftingly Definition In a shifting manner.