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v. i.
To pass slowly and smoothly downward, backward, or away; to slip downward, backward, or away; to glide; -- mostly restricted to figurative uses.
v. t.
To glide over.
v. i.
To pass with a glide, as the voice.
v. i.
To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.
v. t.
To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.
n.
The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
v. t.
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.
n.
A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, // 18, 97, 191).
v. i.
To slide; to glide.
a.
To move, proceed, advance, pass, go, come, etc., swiftly, smoothly, or with quick action; -- said of things animate or inanimate. Hence, to flow, glide, or roll onward, as a stream, a snake, a wagon, etc.; to move by quicker action than in walking, as a person, a horse, a dog.
v. i.
To pass lightly; to glide along in an even, smooth course; to glide along near the surface.
v. t.
To pass near the surface of; to brush the surface of; to glide swiftly along the surface of.
v. i.
To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
n.
To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.
v. i.
To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
imp. & p. p.
of Glide
n.
One who, or that which, glides.
n.
To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
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