Shiff

1.

(INTRANSITIVE) To resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.

2.

(INTRANSITIVE) 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.

3.

(INTRANSITIVE) To practice indirect or evasive methods.

4.

(INTRANSITIVE) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted.

1.

To divide, to distribute