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Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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Slide

Slide (slide)
v. t.(?)
Slide
[imp. Slid (?)] p. p. Slidden (?
  1. To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.
  2. Especially, to move over snow or ice with a smooth, uninterrupted motion, as on a sled moving by the force of gravity, or on the feet.

    They bathe in summer, and in winter slide. Waller.

  3. To pass inadvertently.

    Beware thou slide not by it. Ecclus. xxviii. 26.

  4. To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water.

    Ages shall slide away without perceiving. Dryden.

    Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. Pope.

  5. To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

    Their foot shall slide in due time. Deut. xxxii. 35.

  6. To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
  7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
    [Obs. or Colloq.]

    With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer.

    With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.

Slide

Slide (slide)
v. t.
Slide
  1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
  2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.

Slide

Slide (slide)
n.
Slide
  1. The act of sliding; as, a slide on the ice.
  2. Smooth, even passage or progress.

    A better slide into their business. Bacon.

  3. That on which anything moves by sliding.
    Specifically: (a)
  4. That which operates by sliding.
    Specifically: (a)
  5. A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope.
  6. The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide.
  7. A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.
    Dana.
  8. A grace consisting of two or more small notes moving by conjoint degrees, and leading to a principal note either above or below.
    (b)
  9. A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound.
  10. Same as Guide bar, under Guide.
    (b)












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