Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. i.

1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

I myself, . . . 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; sophisticate; juggle.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. t. [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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)