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[SLIDE, v.] I. Ordinary Language: *1. The act or state of sliding; a smooth and easy pa age. "Kings that have able men of their nobility shall find ease in employing them, and a better slide into their busine ."- Bacon : E ays ; Of Nobility. *2. Slow, even course. "There be, whose fortunes are like Homer's verses, that have a slide and casine more than the verses of other poets."- Bacon . *slide-groat, slide-grote, s . Shove groat (q.v.). "The lieutenant and he for their disport were plaieing at slide-grote or shoofleboord."- Holinshed : Chronicles of Ireland (an. 1528).