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a.
Shifting.
a.
Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management.
a.
Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance.
n.
The quality or state of being shifty.
n.
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
imp. & p. p.
of Shift
v. t.
To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
v. t.
Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
n.
One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
v. i.
To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north.
v. t.
To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
p. pr. & vb. n.
of Shift
a.
Admitting of being shifted.
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Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
adv.
In a shifting manner.
n.
An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
v. t.
The act of shifting.
v. t.
To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
a.
Adapted or used for shifting anything.
v. t.
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
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