Properly, to shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.

To mix by pushing or shoving; to confuse; to throw into disorder; especially, to change the relatibe positions of cards in the pack. A man may shuffle cards or rattle dice from noon to midnight, without tracing a new idea in his head. Rambler.

To remove or introduce by artificial confusion.& It was contrived by your enemies, and shuffled into the papers that were seized. To shuffle off, to push off; to rid one’s self of. When you lay blame to a child, he will attempt to shuffle it off. To shuffle up, to throw together in haste; to make up or form in confusion or with fraudulent disorder; as, he shuffled up a peace.

To change the relative position of cards in a pack by little shoves; as, to shuffle and cut.

To change the position; to shift ground; to prevaricate; to evade fair questions; to pratice shifts to elude detection. Hiding my honor in my necessity, I am fain to shuffle.

To struggle; to shift. Your life, good master, Must shuffle for itself.

To move with an irregular gait; as a shuffling nag.

To shove the feet; to scrape the floor in dancing.

A shoving, pughing or jostling; the act of mixing and throwing into confusion by change of places. The unguided agitation and rude shuffles of matter. Bentley.

An evasion; a trick; an artifice.