sliddernesst (slidernes)

[ sliddery (slid'er-i), a. [ Be maad the weie of hem dercne is, and slider i ; and the aungel of the Lord pursuende hem. Wyclif , Ps. xxxiv. 6. slide (slīd), v.; pret. slid (formerly sometimes slided ), pp. slid, slidden, ppr. sliding. [ His horse slode also with all foure feet that he also fill to the erthe. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 570. 5694 The declivities grew more precipitous, and the sand slided from beneath my feet. Johnson, Vision of Theodore. Especially-8. To slip away quietly or in such a way as not to attract attention; make off quietly. I think he will be found Not to die so much as slide out of life. Browning , Ring and Book, I. 323. And then the girl slid away, flying up-stairs as soon as she was safely out of sight, to cry with happine in her own room where nobody could see. Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xliii. 9. To disappear just when wanted, as by the police; "slope"; "skip." [Slang.] -10. Το make a slip; commit a fault; backslide. See sliding , n., 4.-Satellite sliding rule, an instrument invented by Dr. John Bevis (died 1771) to calculate the eclipses of Jupiter's satellites. -Sliding rule, a mat he matical instrument or scale, consisting of two parts, one of which slides along the other, and each having certain sets of numbers engraved on it, so arranged that when a given number on the one scale is brought to coincide with a given number on the other, the product or some other function of the two numbers is obtained by inspection. The numbers may be adapted to answer many purposes, but the instrument is particularly used in gaging and for the measuring of timber. - Sliding scale. (a) A scale or rate of payment which varies under certain conditions. (1) A scale for raising or lowering imposts in proportion to the fall and rise in the prices of the goods. In 1828 a sliding scale was established, under which a duty of 258. 8d. was imposed upon wheat when the price was under 628. S. Dowell , Taxes in England, IV. 12. (2) A scale of wages which rises and falls with the market price of the goods turned out. (3) A scale of prices for manufactured goods which is regulated by the rise and fall in price of the raw material, etc. (b) Same as sliding rule. Sliding tongs, a form of pliers closed by a ferrule drawn down the stem. =Syn. 1 and 2. Slide , Slip, Glide. We slide or slip on a smooth surface: we slide by intention; we slip in spite of ourselves. In the Bible slide is used for slip . Slide generally refers to a longer movement: as, to slide down hill; to slip on the ice. We glide by a smooth and easy motion, as in a boat over or through the water. II. trans. 1. To cause to glide or move along a surface without bounding, rolling, stepping, etc.; thrust or push along in contact with a surface. The two images of the paper sheet are slidden over each other. Le Conte , Sight, p. 246. 2. To slip gently; push, thrust, or put quietly or imperceptibly. Slide we in this note by the way. Donne , Sermons, v. Their eyes met, and in an instant Norah slid her hand Whyte Melville, White Rose, II. xxviii. 31. To glide over or through. in his. The idle ve el slides that wat'ry way, Without the blast or tug of wind or oar. Th' in chanting force of their sweet Eloquence Hurls headlong down their tender Audience, Aye (childe-like) sliding , in a foolish strife, On th' Icie down-Hils of this slippery Life. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 2. To the Duke, and followed him into the Parke, where, though the ice was broken and dangerous, yet he would go slide upon his skeates, which I did not like, but he slides very well. Pepys , Diary, Dec. 15, 1662. But wild Ambition loves to slide , not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. Dryden, Abs. and Achit., i. 198. 3. To slip or pa smoothly; glide onward. Her subtle form can through all dangers slide. Sir J. Davies, Immortal, of Soul, xxx i. And here, besides other streames, slideth Thermodon, sometime made famous by the bordering Am a zones. Purchas , Pilgrimage, p. 319. 4. To pa gradually from one state or condition to another. Nor could they have slid into those brutish immoral i South, Sermons. ties. IMG:content-1286.png:[blocks in formation] 7. To slip away: as, the ladder slid from under him. easy pa age. Kings that have able men of their nobility shall find ease in employing them, and a better slide into their bus i ne ; for people naturally bend to them, as born in some Bacon, Nobility (ed. 1887). sort to command. 2. Flow; even course; fluency. Certainly there be whose fortunes are like Homer's verses, that have a slide and an easine more than the verses of other poets. Bacon , Fortune (ed. 1887). 3. In music: ( a ) A melodic embellishment or grace, consisting of an upward or a downward series of three or more tones, the last of which is the principal tone. It may be considered as an extension of an appoggiatura. Also sliding relish. (b) Same as portamento.-4. The transition of one articulate sound into another; a glide: an occasional use. - 5. A smooth surf açe, especially of ice, for sliding on. Mr. Pickwick at last took another run, and went slowly and gravely down the slide, with his feet about a yard and a quarter apart, amid the gratified shouts of all the spectators. Dickens, Pickwick, xxx. And I can do butter-and-eggs all down the long slide , The feat of butter-and-eggs. consists in going down the slide on one foot and beating with the heel and toe of the other at short intervals, T. Hughes, The Ashen Faggot, ii. 6. An inclined plane for facilitating the descent of heavy bodies by the force of gravity; a shoot, as a timber-shoot, a shoot (mill or pa ) in a mine, etc. The descending logs in long slides attain such velocity that they sometimes shoot hundreds of feet through the air with the impetus of a cannon-ball. Scribner's Mag., IV. 655. 7. A land-slip; an avalanche.-8. In mining, a fi ure or crack, either empty or filled with flucan, cro ing the lode and throwing it slightly out of its position. In Cornwall, as the term is frequently used, slide is very nearly synonymous with cro flucan; but, more properly, a slide is distinguished from a cro -course or cro -flucan by having a course approx i slider mately parallel to that of the lodes, although differing from them and heaving them in their underlay. Cro courses and cro -flucans, on the other hand, have a course approximately at right angles to that of the lodes. 9. That part of an instrument or apparatus which slides or is slipped into or out of place. (a) A gla with a microscopic object, or a picture shown by the stereoscope, magic lantern, or the like, mounted on it. (b) One of the guide-bars on the cro -head of a steam-engine. (c) In musical instruments of the trumpet cla , a U-shaped section of the tube, which can be pushed in or out so as to alter the length of the air-column, and thus the pitch of the tones. The slide is the distinctive feature of the trombone; but it is also used in the true trumpet, and occasionally in the French horn. As facilitating alterations of pitch in pure intonation, it has de cided advantages over both keys and valves. A special form of slide, called the tuning - slide, is used in almost all metal wind-instruments simply to bring them into accu rate tune with others. See cut under trombone. (d) In organ- building, same as slider1, 1 (f). (e) In racing boats, a sliding seat. Also slider. 10. A slip or inadvertence. The least blemish, the least slide , the least error, the least offence, is exasperated, made capital. Ford , Line of Life. 11. Some arrangement on which anything slides, as (in the plural) slides, a term used in some mines as the equivalent of cage - guides. 12. An object holding by friction upon a band, tag, cord, or the like, and serving to hold its parts or strands in place. (a) A utensil like a buckle, but without a tongue, used for shoe-latchets, pocketbook straps, etc. (b) A rounded body, usually small, pierced with a hole, and sliding on a watch-guard, a cord for an eye-gla , or the like. 13. A slide-valve. [Eng.] - Dark slide, a photographic plate-holder.-Life-and-current slide, a microscope-slide with two oval cells connected by a shallow channel. Pre ure on the cover sends the contents of one cell through the channel into the other, and the thin film can be observed during the pa age. - Long slide, in a steam-engine, a slide-valve of sufficient length to control the ports at both ends of the cylinder, its hollow back forming an exhaust-pipe. Also called long valve.