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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.
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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.
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A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to
midnight without tracing a new idea in his mind.
--Rombler.
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3. To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.
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It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into
the papers that were seizen. --Dryden.
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{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.
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