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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the act of mixing cards haphazardly;
[syn: shuffle, shuffling, make]

2. walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet;
- Example: "from his shambling I assumed he was very old"
[syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling]


VERB (3)

1. walk by dragging one's feet;
- Example: "he shuffled out of the room"
- Example: "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall"
[syn: shuffle, scuffle, shamble]

2. move about, move back and forth;
- Example: "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS"

3. mix so as to make a random order or arrangement;
- Example: "shuffle the cards"
[syn: shuffle, ruffle, mix]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, n. 1. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion. [1913 Webster] The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. --Bentley. [1913 Webster] 2. A trick; an artifice; an evasion. [1913 Webster] The gifts of nature are beyond all shame and shuffles. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Shuffle \Shuf"fle\, v. i. 1. To change the relative position of cards in a pack; as, to shuffle and cut. [1913 Webster] 2. To change one's position; to shift ground; to evade questions; to resort to equivocation; to prevaricate. [1913 Webster] I myself, . . . hiding mine honor in my necessity, am fain to shuffle. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. To use arts or expedients; to make shift. [1913 Webster] Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To move in a slovenly, dragging manner; to drag or scrape the feet in walking or dancing. [1913 Webster] The aged creature came Shuffling along with ivory-headed wand. --Keats. [1913 Webster] Syn: To equivicate; prevaricate; quibble; cavil; shift; sophisticate; juggle. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster] A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind. --Rombler. [1913 Webster] 3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion. [1913 Webster] It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seizen. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

shuffle n 1: the act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make] 2: walking with a slow dragging motion without lifting your feet; "from his shambling I assumed he was very old" [syn: shamble, shambling, shuffle, shuffling] v 1: walk by dragging one's feet; "he shuffled out of the room"; "We heard his feet shuffling down the hall" [syn: shuffle, scuffle, shamble] 2: move about, move back and forth; "He shuffled his funds among different accounts in various countries so as to avoid the IRS" 3: mix so as to make a random order or arrangement; "shuffle the cards" [syn: shuffle, ruffle, mix]