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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.
n.
To move smoothly through the air; to glide through the air without apparent exertion, as a bird.
v. i.
To slide; to glide.
v. i.
To go by or glide by, as time; to elapse; to be spent; as, their vacation passed pleasantly.
v. i.
To fall or glide; to pass; -- usually followed by into.
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 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. t.
To fly through; to glide or move smoothly through.
n.
To move along the surface of a thing without bounding, rolling, or stepping; to slide; to glide.
n.
One who, or that which, glides.
v. i.
To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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. 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.
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.
n.
The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
imp. & p. p.
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