Shiff

·vi To practice indirect or evasive methods.

II. Shiff ·vi To Divide; to Distribute.

III. Shiff ·vi To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum;

— said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.

IV. Shiff ·vi To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to Contrive; to Manage.

V. Shiff ·vi To make a change or changes; to change position; to Move; to Veer; to substitute one thing for another;

— used in the various senses of the transitive verb.