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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
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(Schiftless,) Shiftless, n. [S(c)hift n.] That are unable to fend for themselves. —1685 Wodrow Hist. (1830) IV 244.
That innocent man, who left a wife and four or five small shiftless children
