shudel

See shood. shude2' (shöd), n. Ireland.] shuff (shuf), v. i. [A dial. form (in Hall i well spelled shuf ) of * shough, an unrecorded form, preserving the orig. guttural (AS. sceóh, adj.) of shy: see shyl, v.] To shy. Hall i well. [Prov. Eng shuffle (shuf'l), v.; pret. and pp. shuffled, ppr. shuffling. [Formerly also shoffle, shoffel (in ME. shovelen: see shovel3 ); = IMG:content-0984.png:[blocks in formation] drive on, run away, move dragging the feet, shuffle, mix or shuf- fle (cards), play false, eat greedily; a freq. form, also in una ibilated form scuffle , of shove , but prob. in part confused with the verb shovell , which is ult. from the same verb shove : see shove , scufflel .] I. trans. 1. To shove little by little; push along gradually from place to place; hence, to pa from one to another: as, to shuf- fle money from hand to hand. Yon cottager, who weaves at her own door,... Shuffling her threads about the livelong day. Cowper , Truth, 1. 320. 2. Specifically, to change the relative positions of (cards in a pack). This is usually done before dealing, and with the cards face downward, the object being to mix them thoroughly, so that they may fall to the players in random order. Hearts by Love strangely shuffled are, That there can never meet a Pair! Cowley, The Mistre , Distance. I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. Swift , Thoughts on Various Subjects. IMG:content-0985.png:[blocks in formation] Bids all be let alone; and calls for books, Shoffels Divinity and Poetry, Phylosophy and Historical together, And throws all by. Brome , Queen's Exchange, iii. 4. To put or bring (in, off, out, up, etc.) under IMG:content-0986.png:[blocks in formation] While it was yet two or three hours before daybreak, the sleep-forsaken little man arose, shuffled into his garments, and in his stocking-feet sought the corridor. G. W. Cable , Old Creole Days, p. 265. =Syn. 4. To equivocate, quibble, sophisticate, dodge. shunt Dialectal forms of shug2 (shug), interj. [Cf. sic3 and shuck5.] A call to pigs. [New Eng.] shuldet, shuldent. Obsolete preterits of shalll. shuldert, n. An obsolete form of shoulder. shule, shull, shöl, shul, n. shoul, a contracted form of shovel. shullent, shullet, shult. Obsolete plural forms of shall. See sheltron. or tricky way. And she shuffles up a quantity of straw or hay into some pretty corner of the barn where she may conveniently lie. Harman, Caveat for Cursetors, p. 103. He shall likewise shuffle her away , While other sports are tasking of their minds. Shak., M. W. of W., iv. 6. 29. To shuffle up a summary proceeding by examination without trial of jury. Bacon . ing or pushing; particularly, a thrusting out of place or order; a change producing disorder. A goodly huge cabinet, wherein whatsoever singularity, chance, and the shuffle of things hath produced shall be sorted and included. Bacon , Works (ed. Spedding), I. 335. The unguided agitation and rude shufles of matter. Bentley, Sermons. little creatures, and should not have minded them had 2. Specifically, a changing of the order of cards I scorn to speak anything to the diminution these they been still shuffled among the crowd. Add is on, The Tall Club, Spectator, No. 108. 5. To drag with a slovenly, scraping movement; move with a shuffle. Men, women, rich and poor, in the cool hours, Shuffled their sandals o'er the pavement white, Companion'd or alone. Keats , Lamia, i. 6. To perform with a shuffle. I remember the time, for the roots of my hair were stirr'd By a shufled step, by a dead weight trail'd, by a whisper'd fright. To shuffle off, to thrust aside; put off. Tennyson, Maud, i. When we have shuffled off this mortal coil. Shak ., Hamlet, iii. 1. 67. But they thought not of shuffling off upon posterity the burden of resistance. Everett , Orations, p. 105. II. in trans. 1. To push; shove; thrust one's self forward. He that shall sit down frightened with that foolery Is not worth pity: let me alone to shuffle . Fletcher and Shirley , Night-Walker, i. 1. You live perpetual in disturbancy; Contending, thrusting, shuffling for your rooms Of ease or honour, with impatiency. Daniel, Civil Wars, viii. 100. IMG:content-0987.png:[blocks in formation] With a slye shuffle of counterfeit principles chopping and changing till hee have glean'd all the good ones out of their minds. Milton, On Def. of Humb. Remonst., Pref. The gifts of nature are beyond all shams and shuffles . Sir R. L'Estrange. The country had a right to expect a straightforward pol- icy instead of the shirk and shuffle which had been foisted upon it. Westminster Rev., CXXV. 444. 5. A slow, heavy, irregular manner of moving; an awkward, dragging gait.-6. In dancing, a rapid scraping movement of the feet; also, a dance in which the feet are shuffled alternately over the floor at regular intervals. The double shuffle differs from the shuffle in each movement being executed twice in succe ion with the same foot. The voice of conscience can be no more heard in this continual tumult then the vagient cries of the infant Ju- piter amidst the rude shuffles and dancings of the Cretick Corybantes. Dr. H. More , Immortal. of Soul, ii. 18. shuffle-board, n. See shovel- board . shuffle-cap (shuf'l-kap), n. A play performed 2. To mix up cards in a pack, changing their positions so that they may fall to the players in irregular and unknown order. Compare I., 2. Mr. Rodney owns he was a little astonished at seeing by shaking money in a hat or cap. the Count shuffle with the faces of the cards upwards. Walpole , Letters, II. 143. The paralytic... borrows a friend's hand To deal and shuffle , to divide and sort Her mingled suits and sequences. IMG:content-0988.png:[blocks in formation] 3. To move little by little; shift gradually; imaginable. shift. IMG:content-0989.png:[blocks in formation] If otherwise the wind blow, stiff as I am, Yet I shall learn to shuffle . Fletcher, Mad Lover, i. 1. You sifted not so clean before, but you shuffle as foulely Milton , On Def. of Humb. Remonst. The Rajah, after the fashion of his countrymen, shuffled , solicited, and pleaded poverty. Macaulay , Warren Hastings. 5. To move in a slow, irregular, lumbering fashion; drag clumsily or heavily along a surface; especially, to walk with a slovenly, dragging, or scraping gait. A shoele soldier there a man might meet Leading his monsieur by the arms fast bound; Another his had shackled by the feet, Who like a cripple shuffled on the ground. Drayton, Battle of Agin court. The boy-bridegroom, shuffling in his pace, Now hid awhile and then exposed his face. Crabbe, Works, I. 75. The aged creature came, Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. Keats, Eve of St. Agnes, st. 11. 6. To shove the feet noisily to and fro on the floor or ground; specifically, to scrape the floor with the feet in dancing. Pa engers blew into their hands, and shuffled in their wooden shoes to set the blood agog. R. L. Stevens on, Inland Voyage, p. 224. 7. To proceed awkwardly or with difficulty; struggle clumsily or perfunctorily. mas, or long drawers; also, loose trousers worn by Asiatics of both sexes.