These are the meanings of the letters IFHSOT when you unscramble them.
- Foist (n.)
A foister; a sharper.
- Foist (n.)
A light and fast-sailing ship.
- Foist (n.)
A trick or fraud; a swindle.
- Foist (v. t.)
To insert surreptitiously, wrongfully, or without warrant; to interpolate; to pass off (something spurious or counterfeit) as genuine, true, or worthy; -- usually followed by in.
- Hoist (n.)
That by which anything is hoisted; the apparatus for lifting goods.
- Hoist (n.)
The act of hoisting; a lift.
- Hoist (n.)
The height of a fore-and-aft sail next the mast or stay.
- Hoist (n.)
The perpendicular height of a flag, as opposed to the fly, or horizontal length when flying from a staff.
- Hoist (p. p.)
Hoisted.
- Hoist (v. t.)
To raise; to lift; to elevate; esp., to raise or lift to a desired elevation, by means of tackle, as a sail, a flag, a heavy package or weight.
- Shift (v. t.)
A breaking off and dislocation of a seam; a fault.
- Shift (v. t.)
A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin.
- Shift (v. t.)
In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints.
- Shift (v. t.)
Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise.
- Shift (v. t.)
The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution.
- Shift (v. t.)
The act of shifting.
- Shift (v. t.)
The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift.
- Shift (v. t.)
To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.
- Shift (v. t.)
To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame.
- Shift (v. t.)
To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails.
- Shift (v. t.)
To divide; to distribute; to apportion.
- Shift (v. t.)
To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes.
- Shift (v. t.)
To put off or out of the way by some expedient.