vi to practice indirect or evasive methods.
2. shiff ·vi to divide; to distribute.
3. 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.
4. shiff ·vi to resort to expedients for accomplishing a purpose; to contrive; to manage.
5. 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.