1. (v. t.) To push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

2. (v. t.) 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.

3. (v. t.) To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.

4. (v. i.) To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut.

5. (v. i.) To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate.

6. (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

7. (v. i.) To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing.

8. (n.) The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

9. (n.) A trick; an artifice; an evasion.

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