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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   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.
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