Shuffle — Defs

01 v. t. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

imp. & p. p. Shuffled; p. pr. & vb. n. Shuffling

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.

Phrases & compounds

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.

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

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.

03 n. The act of shuffling; a mixing confusedly; a slovenly, dragging motion.

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.