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To shuffe off

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.

  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.

    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.