| shuffle | 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 muself, . . . 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) Synonym: To equivicate, prevaricate, quibble, cavil, shift, siphisticate, juggle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| shuffler | 1. One who shuffles. 2. <zoology> Either one of the three common American scaup ducks. See Scaup duck, under Scaup. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| shufflewing | <zoology> The hedg sparrow. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| exon shuffle | The variation in the patterns by which RNA may produce diverse sets of exons from a single gene. (05 Mar 2000) |
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