Part 4838

<h1>Glidder, Gliddery</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw><hw>Glid"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Glid"der*y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[Cf. <er>Glide</er>.]</ety> <def>Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng.]</mark>

<blockquote>Shingle, slates, and <b>gliddery</b> stones. <i>R. D. Blackmore.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glide</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glide</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The glede or kite.</def>

<h1>Glide</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glide</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Glided</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gliding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>gl\'c6dan</ets>; akin to D. <ets>glijden</ets>, OHG. <ets>gl\'c6tan</ets>, G. <ets>gleiten</ets>, Sw. <ets>glida</ets>, Dan. <ets>glide</ets>, and prob. to E. <ets>glad</ets>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The river <b>glideth</b> at his own sweet will. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Phon.)</fld> <def>To pass with a glide, as the voice.</def>

<h1>Glide</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glide</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.</def>

<blockquote>They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid <b>glide</b>, along the leaning line. <i>Thomson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented <b>glides</b> did slip away. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <fld>(Phon.)</fld> <def>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 <i>Guide to Pronunciation</i>, &sect;&sect; 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 <i>Guide to Pronunciation</i>, &sect;&sect; 18, 97, 191).</def>

<note>&hand; The <i>on-glide</i> of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the <i>off-glide</i>, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as <i>initial</i> or <i>final</i>, or <i>fore-glides</i> and <i>after-glides</i>. For <i>voice-glide</i>, see <i>Guide to Pronunciation</i>, &sect;&sect; 17, 95.</note>

<h1>Gliden</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glid"en</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <mark>obs.</mark> <def><tt>p. p.</tt> of <er>Glide</er>.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Glider</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glid"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, glides.</def>

<h1>Glidingly</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Glid"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a gliding manner.</def>

<h1>Gliff</h1> <Xpage=630>

<hw>Gliff</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Cf. OE. <ets>gliffen</ets>, <ets>gliften</ets>, to look with fear at.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A transient glance; an unexpected view of something that startles one; a sudden fear.</def> <mark>[Prov. Eng. & Scot.]</mark>

<i>Halliwell.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A moment: as, for a <i>gliff</i>.</def> <mark>[Scot.]</mark>

<i>Sir W. Scott.</i>