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shifted, ppl. a.|ˈʃɪftɪd|
[f. shift v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the verb. † Of a snake: That has changed its skin. Of a ship's ballast or cargo (see quot. 1760).
1595Shakes. John iv. ii. 23 Like a shifted winde vnto a saile, It makes the course of thoughts to fetch about. 1648Herrick Hesper., Oberon's Palace 67 The roome is hung with the blew skin Of shifted snake. 1700Dryden Ovid's Pythag. Philos. 389 All Things are alter'd, nothing is destroy'd, The shifted Scene, for some new Show employ'd. 1760Falconer Dict. Marine (1780), Shifted, the state of a ship's ballast or cargo when it is shaken from one side to the other. 1897F. Thompson New Poems 132 Even with the shifted Poise and footing of my thought. |