Sentence:  <WSD>Shifty</WSD> and thrifty as old Greek or modern Scot, there were few things he could not invent, and perhaps nothing he could not endure. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Full of, or ready with, shifts or expedients.<ref>(Thomas Wright), "Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English", London: Henry G. Bohn, Volume 2, p.(nbsp)848: “Cunning; artful” ("(Craven) [Yorkshire]").[https://archive.org/details/dictionaryobsol03wriggoog]</ref>