Word Meanings - SHUFFLECAP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

,.A play performed by shaking money in a hat or cap. Arbuthnot.

Related words: (words related to SHUFFLECAP)

• SHAKE
  obs. p. p. of Shake. Chaucer.
• MONEYER
  1. A person who deals in money; banker or broker. 2. An authorized coiner of money. Sir M. Hale. The Company of Moneyers, the officials who formerly coined the money of Great Britain, and who claimed certain prescriptive rights and privileges.
• SHAKINESS
  Quality of being shaky.
• MONEYAGE
  1. A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume. 2. Mintage; coinage.
• SHAKY
  1. Shaking or trembling; as, a shaky spot in a marsh; a shaky hand. Thackeray. 2. Full of shakes or cracks; cracked; as, shaky timber. Gwilt. 3. Easily shaken; tottering; unsound; as, a shaky constitution; shaky business credit.
• PERFORMANCE
  The act of performing; the carrying into execution or action; execution; achievement; accomplishment; representation by action; as, the performance of an undertaking of a duty. Promises are not binding where the performance is impossible. Paley.
• MONEY
  fr. L. moneta. See Mint place where coin is made, Mind, and cf. 1. A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and
• SHAKO
  A kind of military cap or headress.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his
• SHAKEN
  1. Caused to shake; agitated; as, a shaken bough. 2. Cracked or checked; split. See Shake, n., 2. Nor is the wood shaken or twisted. Barroe. 3. Impaired, as by a shock.
• SHAKER
  A variety of pigeon. P. J. Selby. (more info) 1. A person or thing that shakes, or by means of which something is shaken. 2. One of a religious sect who do not marry, popularly so called from the movements of the members in dancing, which forms
• MONEYED
  1. Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men. Bacon. 2. Converted into money; coined. If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed. Locke. 3. Consisting
• PERFORM
  parfornir, parfournir, to finish, complete; OF. & F. par + fournir to finish, complete. The word has been influenced by form; 1. To carry through; to bring to completion; to achieve; to accomplish; to execute; to do. I will cry unto God most
• SHAKERISM
  Doctrines of the Shakers.
• SHAKEFORK
  A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
• SHAKINGS
  Deck sweepings, refuse of cordage, canvas, etc. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
• PERFORMER
  One who performs, accomplishes, or fulfills; as, a good promiser, but a bad performer; especially, one who shows skill and training in any art; as, a performer of the drama; a performer on the harp.
• MONEY-MAKER
  1. One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. 2. One who accumulates money or wealth; specifically, one who makes money-getting his governing motive.
• SHAKUDO
  An alloy of copper, invented by the Japanese, having a very dark blue color approaching black.
• MONEYLESS
  Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.
• WIND-SHAKEN
  Shaken by the wind; specif. ,
• OVERSHAKE
  To shake over or away; to drive away; to disperse. Chaucer.
• UNDERMONEYED
  Bribed. Fuller.
• UNSHAKABLE
  Not capable of being shaken; firm; fixed. Shak. J. S. Mill.
• HEADSHAKE
  A significant shake of the head, commonly as a signal of denial. Shak.