One of a group of gigantic, horned beetles, including
Dynastus Neptunus, and the Hercules beetle (D. Hercules) of tropical
America, which grow to be six inches in length.
1. To divide; to distribute; to apportion. [Obs.] To which God of his bounty would shift Crowns two of flowers well smelling. Chaucer. 2. To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shi...