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Sloop

A vessel having one mast and fore and aft rig consisting of a boom and gaff mainsail jibs staysail and gaff topsail The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit topmast and standing rigging while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted The sloop usually carries a centerboard and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880 One radical distinction is that a sloop may carry a centerboard See Cutter and Illustration in Appendix...

Shifty

Full of or ready with shifts fertile in expedients or contrivance...

Shifter

One who or that which shifts one who plays tricks or practices artifice a cozener...

Shiftable

Admitting of being shifted...

Photochromoscope

A device for giving shifting effects of color to a photograph The unmounted print made translucent is illuminated from behind with colored light...

massif

A block of the earths crust bounded by faults and shifted to form peaks of a mountain range...

Lorrie

A small cart or wagon moving on rails as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish also a barrow or truck for shifting baggage as at railway stations...

Go by

A passing without notice intentional neglect thrusting away a shifting off adieu as to give a proposal the go by...

Caveating

Shifting the sword from one side of an adversarys sword to the other...

Undue influence

Undue influence, Any influence, pressure, or domination in such circumstances that the person acting under that influence may be held not to have exercised his free and independent volition in regard to the act.As to gifts, see title SPIRITUALISM and Lyon v. Home, (1868) LR 6 Eq 655, and as to wills, see Parfitt v. Lawless, (1872) LR 2 P&M 462.In the case of benefits or advantages obtained in certain relationships, the existence of this influence is presumed, e.g., guardian and ward, a parent over a child upon or soon after attaining age and the possession of property, a guide or instructor, medical advisers, ministers or professors of religion, managers of business [Coomber v. Coomber, (1911) 1 Ch 174], attendants upon or advisers of aged and infirm people. In such cases, in regard to transactions inter vivos, the onus of proving absence of undue influence lies on the person claiming the benefit of the disposition or act, and in some cases, e.g., gifts by clients to their solicitors (...

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