- 3. Change, vary, veer, chop, alter.
- 4. Contrive, manage, plan, scheme, shuffle, devise ways and means.
Shift, n.
- 1. Change.
- 2. Expedient, contrivance, resort, resource, means.
- 3. Evasion, artifice, fraud, trick, stratagem, subterfuge, mask, wile, craft, device, mean refuge, chicane,
chicanery, artful contrivance, ruse.
- 4. Chemise, smock.
Shifter, n. Trickster, cozener.
Shiftiness, n. Changeableness, variableness.
Shiftless, a. Improvident, imprudent, inefficient, prodigal, wasteful.
Shillalah, Shillaly, Shillelah, n. Club, cudgel, oak sapling.
Shilli-shally, Shilly-shally, v. n. Hesitate, waver.
Shilli-shally, Shilly-shally, n. Irresolution, hesitation, foolish trifling, wavering.
Shimmer, v. n. Glimmer, gleam, glisten, shine faintly.
Shin, n. Fore part of the lower leg, tibia, shinbone.
Shin, v. n. Swarm, climb (with hands and knees).
Shindy, n. (Colloq.) Row, spree, riot, disturbance, uproar.
Shine, v. n.
- 1. Beam, radiate, gleam, give light.
- 2. Glitter, glisten, sparkle, gleam, glow, glare, coruscate, be bright, be brilliant.
- 3. Be eminent, be distinguished, be conspicuous, excel.
- 4. Be prominent.