Slide

slīd, v.i. to slip or glide: to pa along smoothly: to fall: to slip away quietly, to disappear: ( slang ) to slope, slip away from the police, .— v.t. to thrust along: to slip:— pa.t. slid; pa.p. slid or slidd′en. — n. a smooth pa age: the fall of a ma of earth or rock: a smooth declivity: anything, as a lid, that slides, a gla that slides in a frame in front of a magic-lantern, bearing the picture to be thrown on the screen, that part of a photographic plate-holder which serves to cover and uncover the negative: ( mus. ) a melodic embellishment, two notes sliding into each other: ( slang ) a biscuit covered with ice-cream.— adj. Slī′dable , capable of sliding or of being slid.— ns. Slī′der , one who, or that which, slides: the part of an instrument or machine that slides; Slide′-rest , an apparatus adapted to a turning-lathe for carrying the cutting-tool; Slide′-valve , a valve in a steam-engine, made to slide backward and forward to cover and uncover the openings through which steam enters the cylinder; Slī′ding , act of one who slides: falling: backsliding.— p.adj. slippery: movable, changing.— ns. Slī′ding-keel , an oblong frame let down vertically through the bottom of a ve el in order to deepen the draught and sustain against a side-wind; Slī′ding-rule (see Rule ); Slī′ding-scale , a scale of duties which slide or vary according to the value or market prices: a sliding-rule; Slī′ding-seat , a kind of seat for racing-boats, moving with the swing of the rower's body; Slīdom′eter , an instrument indicating the strain put on a railway-carriage by sudden stoppage. [A.S. slídan , to slide; Dut. slidderen , to slip.]