shun, shonien, shunien

t. [A. S. scúnian, onscúnian, orig.=to flee away, to hurry off; cognate with Icel.skunda, skynda; Dan.skynde; Sw.skynda sig =to hasten, to hurry, to speed.] 1. To avoid; to keep clear of or away from; to get or keep out of the way of; to avoid, to shrink from, to eschew, to elude. "Placed in such a light as to be shunned by every boy in the school."- Goldsmith: The Bee. *2. To decline, to neglect. "I have not shunned to declare the whole counsel of shake off. "When we have shufsled of this mortal coil." Shakesp.: Hamlet, iii. 1. (2) In trans.: To move off in a slovenly, dragging manner; to evade, to equivocate. "If, when a child is questioned for any thing, he sist to shuffle it off with a falsehood, he must be chastised." Locke: On Education. *2. To shuffle up : To throw together in haste; to make up or form in confusion, or with fraudulent disorder. "They sent forth their precepts to convent them before a court of commi ion, and there used to shufle up a summary proceeding by examination, without trial of jury." -Bacon . shuf-fie, s. [SHUFFLE, υ.] 1. A pushing, shoving, or jostling; the act of shuffling, mixing, or throwing into confusion by change of places; spec if., the act of changing the relative position of cards in a pack by shuffling them. "All ill-favoredly cobbled and jumbled together, by the unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter."-Bentley: Boyle Lectures. 2. An evasion, a trick, an artifice. "Socinus' pretended reasons against the notion of remembrance were mere shuffle and pretense." - Water. land: Works, vii. 64. 3. In dancing, a rapid scraping movement with the feet.