Dictionary entry

Shuffle (3)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Shuf″fle, n. 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.