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glide

GLIDE, v.i.

1. To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river.

By east, among the dusty vallies glide

The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood.

2. To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.

3. To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.

4. In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.

GLIDE, n. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.




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GLIDE, v.i.

1. To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river.

By east, among the dusty vallies glide

The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood.

2. To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.

3. To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.

4. In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.

GLIDE, n. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.


GLIDE, n.

The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction. Shak.


GLIDE, v.i. [Sax. glidan; G. gleiten; D. glyden; Dan. glider. Qu. Fr. glisser, in a different dialect. It has the elements of slide, as glib has of slip.]

  1. To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river. By east, among the dusty valleys glide / The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood. Fairfax.
  2. To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as, a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.
  3. To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.
  4. In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.

Glide
  1. The glede or kite.
  2. 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.

    The river glideth at his own sweet will. Wordsworth.

  3. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.

    They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts,
    With rapid glide, along the leaning line.
    Thomson.

    Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
    And with indented glides did slip away.
    Shak.

  4. Movement of a glider, aëroplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.
  5. To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.
  6. To pass with a glide, as the voice.
  7. 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).

    * The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides. For voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 17, 95.

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Glide

GLIDE, verb intransitive

1. To flow gently; to move without noise or violence; as a river.

By east, among the dusty vallies glide

The silver streams of Jordan's crystal flood.

2. To move silently and smoothly; to pass along without apparent effort; as a hawk or an eagle gliding through the air.

3. To move or pass rapidly and with apparent ease; as, a ship glides through the water.

4. In a general sense, to move or slip along with ease as on a smooth surface, or to pass along rapidly without apparent effort, and without obstruction.

GLIDE, noun The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.

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IMPORT'ANCE, n.

1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

3. Weight or consequence in self-estimation.

He believes himself a man of importance.

4. Thing implied; matter; subject; importunity. [In these senses, obsolete.]

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SUPERSEC'ULAR, a. [super and secular.] Being above the world or secular things.

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