- Act evasively - To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean
solicitation. - To avoid; to escape; to neglect; -- implying
unfaithfulness or fraud; as, to shirk duty. - To live by shifts and fraud; to shark. - To evade an obligation; to avoid the performance of duty,
as by running away. - One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the
performance of duty or labor.