Available Definitions:
1) a. - Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
2) a. - Adapted or used for shifting anything.
3) v. t. - To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
4) v. t. - To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
5) v. t. - To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
6) v. t. - To put off or out of the way by some expedient.
7) v. t. - The act of shifting.
8) v. t. - The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
9) v. t. - Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
10) v. t. - The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
11) v. t. - In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
12) v. t. - A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
13) v. t. - A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.