SHUFFLE

shuffle. Shuffle, v. to change the position of cards, mix, shake, prevaricate, evade, shift off, cheat

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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. 1. To shove one way and the other; to push from one to another; as, to shuffle money from hand to hand.
2. 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. 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.