Dodge

1. n. The act of evading by some skillful movement; a sudden starting aside; hence, an artful device to evade, deceive, or cheat; a cunning trick; an artifice.
2. v. i. To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start.
3. v. i. To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.
4. v. t. To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown.
5. v. t. Fig.: To evade by craft; as, to dodge a question; to dodge responsibility.
6. v. t. To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.