Ben Jonson: Poetaster

3. IMG:content-0517.png:[blocks in formation] "With a glibne that left no doubt in my mind but that it was his projected platform performance." -London Daily Telegraph. glid-der, a. [GLIDE.] Slippery. ( Provincial.) glid-der-ý, a. [English glidder; -y.] Slippery, smooth. "All a barren, hard, grey stretch of shingle, slates, and gliddery stones." - Black more: Clara Vaughan, ch. vi., p. 53. Elide, *glyde (pa. t. * glod , * glode , glided ), v . i . . [A. S. glid an ; cogn. with Dut. glijden ; Dan. glide : Sw. glid a ; Ger. gleiten ; O. Fris. glid a ; M. H. Ger. gliten .] A. In trans.: To move smoothly and gently; without noise or violence; to pa or move along without apparent effort or change of step; to slip or slide along, as on a smooth surface. "Thy shadow still would glide from room to room." Tennyson: Guinevere, 500. *B. Trans.: To send gliding; to cause to move smoothly and gently. "Swift as the merciful decrees above Are glided down the Battlements of Bli ." Banks: Albion Queens (1735), p. 19. ☑ For the difference between to glide and to slip , see SLIP. 2019 glide, s. [GLIDE, v.] 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of gliding or moving along smoothly and gently, without noise, apparent effort, or violence; a smooth and easy motion over a level surface produced without change of step. "The prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line.' Thomson: Summer, 276. 2. Music & Phonol .: The joining of two succe ive sounds without articulation; a slur.