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▪ I. slide, n.|slaɪd|
Also 6 Sc. slyde.
[f. slide v.]
I.
1. a. The act or fact of sliding; an instance of this; also, the manner in which a thing slides.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 81 As some travel-tired passenger..Sits downe to view the sight-reviving slide, The wanton bubling-waters gentle glide. 1609Dekker Gull's Horn Bk. Wks. (Grosart) II. 231 You may publish your suit..with the slide of your cloake from the one shoulder. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World 58 My third Lieutenant broke his leg by a slide on the deck. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xi. 78 The edge of the precipice, to which less than a quarter of a minute's slide would carry us. 1878B. Taylor Pr. Deukalion iii. i, The bubble and slide of the rill Is heard.
b. fig. in various applications.
1570Satir. Poems Reform. xvi. 23 Sen he hes maid sa mony slydis Trow ȝe he can be trew? 1607–12Bacon Ess., Nobility (Arb.) 196 Kinges, that have able Men of theire Nobilitye, shall finde ease in ymploying them, and a better slyde in theire busines. 1625Ibid., Fortune 381 Like Homers Verses, that haue a Slide, and Easinesse, more then the Verses of other Poets. 1833T. Hook Parson's Dau. iii. vii, Thence, by a graceful slide down the family-tree, her ladyship traced out the consanguinity.
c. Music. A kind of grace (see quots.); also = portamento.
1818Busby Gram. Mus. 152 The Slide, a grace in very frequent use. It generally consists of two notes gradually ascending or descending to the note it is intended to ornament; and to which it is attached by a curve. 1881Grove's Dict. Music III. 534 Slide,..an ornament frequently met with in both vocal and instrumental music, although its English name has fallen into disuse. It consists of a rapid diatonic progression of three notes, either ascending or descending, of which the principal note, or note to be ornamented, is the third, and the other two are grace-notes. 1908Grove's Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) IV. 482/1 To violinists the ‘slide’ is one of the principal vehicles of expression, at the same time a means of passing from one note to another at a distance. 1913F. Thistleton Mod. Violin Technique xv. 74 The slide is one of the principal mediums of expression on the violin. 1938L. Tertis Beauty of Tone in String Playing 14 The celerity with which this is done is the secret of discreet natural portamento... There must be no drawling, languishing, or lingering in the action of the slide.
d. fig. A rapid decline; a downturn. Also in phr. on the slide.
1884Gladstone in Spectator 16 Feb. 220/1 When I saw his mind shaken and, so to speak, on the slide. 1931Economist 14 Mar. 569/2 Unsatisfactory traffics, and the passing of the B.A. Great Western dividend, accentuated the ‘slide’ of prices. 1969N. Cohn Pop from Beginning ix. 86 He began to flag. By early 1964, he was definitely on the slide. 1981Times 5 May 18/1 A 20 per cent slide in profits at the half-way stage.
e. Baseball. A plunging or sliding approach made to a base along the ground.
1886H. Chadwick Art of Batting 68 A slide in time saves an out. 1934Baseball Mag. Apr. 497/2 Chapman has a natural talent as a base stealer... He knows how..to make a perfect slide. 1944E. Allen Major League Baseball xv. 204 There are four types of slides: the hook slide, the bent leg slide, the feet first slide and the head first slide. 1972J. Mosedale Football iii. 32 He stretched it into a triple with a daring slide [contextually in Baseball].
f. Surfing. A ride across the face of a wave (see quot. 1963); a wave suitable for this.
1935D. Kahanomoku in T. Blake Hawaiian Surfboard i. 32 (caption) A fine illustration of the slide. The wave is coming on while the rider is sliding left across the face of the swell. 1946J. A. Ball Scrapbk. of Surfriding 57 (caption) Tom Blake streaking along on a long belly slide. 1963J. Pollard Austral. Surfrider ii. 20/1 A ‘slide’ can be either ‘left’ or ‘right’, angling down the wave to one side or the other. 1968Surfer Mag. Jan. 47/3 Ten-foot waves that peel off in good right and left slides.
g. Curling. A delivery in which a curler slides some distance forward in launching his stone.
1950K. Watson Curling i. 42 By delivering the stone at the end of a long slide, a player could be more accurate in delivery. 1962,1969[see long slide s.v. long a.1 A. 18].
h. Jazz. = glissando.
1959‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene 289 Technical terms either duplicate existing, but unfamiliar, ones—e.g. slide, smear, for glissando..or they describe things for which no proper academic equivalent exists. 1973Black World Nov. 48/1 Performance practices require a ‘slur’ and/or ‘slide’ when moving from tone to tone.
2. a. An earth-slip, a landslip, an avalanche; a place on a hill-side, etc., where this has happened.
1664Maldon Borough Deeds (Bundle 151 fol. 1), [To] amend and restore all such slides, decayes, or breaches, of and in the calcway. 1829Scott Anne of G. ii, He..was led..to believe that this rock marked the farthest extent of the slip or slide of earth. 1860O. W. Holmes Elsie V. xxxi, It proved to be not so much a slide as the breaking off and falling of a vast line of cliff. 1900Jrnl. Sch. Geog. (U.S.) Apr. 157 Immediately following this tremendous slide came a crowd of people rushing in every direction.
b. A sliding mass or stretch of water.
1869Blackmore Lorna D. vii, I stood at the foot of a long pale slide of water.
3. Mining.
a. A fracture in a lode resulting in the dislocation or displacement of a portion of it; a vein of clay, etc., marking such dislocation.
1778W. Pryce Min. Cornub. 82 That fracture which we call a slide or heave. Ibid. 83 The slide or heave of the Lode manifests the greater subsidence of the Strata. 1839Ure Dict. Arts 316 Clay veins; of which there are two sets, the more ancient, called Cross-Fluckans; and the more modern, called Slides. 1865J. T. F. Turner Slate Quarries 23 Walls of hardah..are dreaded, because they are generally accompanied by slides, which dip precipitously from east to west. 1890Melbourne Argus 16 June 6/1 Every main reef is cut by a slide dipping from west to east.
b. Matter dislodged by an earth-slip.
1841Whittier To a Friend iv, Loose rock and frozen slide Hung on the mountain-side. 1874Raymond Statist. Mines & Mining 296 The shaft passes 45 feet through ‘slide’, and then 155 feet on the vein.
c. Geol. A fault formed at and associated with a fold.
1910E. B. Bailey in Q. Jrnl. Geol. Soc. LXVI. 593 ‘Fold-fault’ itself is too cumbrous for constant repetition, and accordingly ‘slide’ has been introduced to take its place. 1934― in Ibid. XC. 467 ‘Fold-fault’ is an old word for a fault formed in close causal connexion with folding... I employed the word ‘slip’ in this sense, but on Lapworth's suggestion exchanged it for ‘slide’. Now that reversed and unreversed limbs are often distinguishable through the help of current-bedding, the word ‘slide’ is less necessary, since it can often conveniently be replaced by ‘thrust’ or ‘lag’. The following are helpful though incomplete definitions:—A thrust is a slide replacing an inverted limb, actual or ideal. A lag is a slide replacing a normal limb. 1969Bennison & Wright Geol. Hist. Brit. Isles iii. 55 An important structural break, the Iltay Boundary Slide, separates two contrasted sedimentary successions both in Scotland and northern Ireland.
4. a. A kind of sledge. (Cf. slid n.)
1685–90Coad Wonderful Provid. (1849) 10 Reply was made that I was not able to go or ride; at which he ordered them to bring me on a slide. 1764Museum Rust. II. 362 We frequently procure a slide, to be drawn by one horse, made of two poles about ten feet long. 1861Smiles Lives Engineers I. 193 The slide or sledge is seen in the fields. 1896Pilgrim Missionary (Boston) Sept. 10, I..borrowed a mule and a slide, and hauled to the house some planks and pickets.
b. A runner on which a gun is mounted.
1830Marryat King's Own xxx, Their guns..were fixed on slides,..to enable them to be fired over the bows. 1833― P. Simple (1863) 248 They all carried guns mounted upon slides, which ran fore and aft between the men.
II.
5. A sliding part of some mechanism; a device which slides or may be slid; N.Z., a serving hatch (see j); Mus., on wind instruments; also a slide guitar or the playing of it (see k).
In various technical uses: cf. slider n. 4. Ash (1775) gives the general definition, ‘a part of an instrument or machine to be pulled in and out’. A few out of the many special applications are here illustrated.
a.c1608Sarum Churchw. Acc. (Swayne, 1896) 158 For the fiffth bell..a Rope Slide and other Implementes.
b.c1800Busby Dict. Mus. s.v. Trumpet, By the aid of a newly invented slide many other notes which the common trumpet cannot sound are now produced. 1872H. C. Banister Text-bk. Music (1899) 228 The Trombone is a brass instrument with slides shortening or lengthening its tube.
c.1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. I. 46 Air should likewise be pretty freely admitted..by means of slides or other contrivances. 1855Lardner Mus. Sci. & Art V. 25 The methods of opening and closing the passages by means of lids slipping over them called slides. 1857Dickens Dorrit i. xxii, These instructions Mr. Chivery..called through a little slide in the outer door.
d.1852Seidel Organ 57 The slides are ledges of good dry oak, about two or two and a half inches wide, and one third of an inch thick.
e.1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Slide,..part of a forcing-pump.
f.1869Rankine Machine & Hard-tools Pl. H 10, This lathe has..a self-acting slide..for boring out..short lengths. 1893Spon Mechanic's Own Book (ed. 4) 536, a is a slide which fits the lathe-bed very accurately, but will yet slide freely upon it.
g.1877Encycl. Brit. VI. 490 The ‘slide’, or lock, receding from the spindles during the twisting of the threads, and returning to the spindle again during the winding on of the yarn.
h.1879Thomson & Tait Nat. Phil. I. i. 194 Attached to the framework let there be, close to the circumference of each cylinder, a slide or guide-rod to guide a moveable point, moved by the hand of an operator.
i.1884Britten Watch & Clockm. 92 In full plate lever watches the slide is jewelled and supports the bottom pivot of the balance staff.
j.1949J. R. Cole It was so Late 92, I was standing by the slide in the lounge one night. 1955Numbers I. iv. 14 Charlie ordered for them both and Kate dragged back to the slide.
k.1968Down Beat 31 Oct. 18/1 He had quite a lot of advantages on his guitar for that time. Played slide a lot. 1976A. C. Baines Brass Instruments iv. 94 (heading) Renaissance slides. 1976Rolling Stone 22 Apr. 16/5 After some initially slavish imitations of Muddy and Elmore, slide became better integrated into rock. 1977J. Wainwright Do Nothin' till you hear from Me viii. 129 Walter Green—trombonist... As a slide-player he is average.
6. A kind of tongueless buckle or ring used as a fastener, clasp, or brooch; a small perforated object sliding on a cord, etc. Now spec. a clasp for fastening in the hair.
1779Ann. Reg. 203 A gold slide, set with diamonds. 1824Jane Taylor Contrib. of Q.Q. (1828) II. 149 If a slide broke in her frock,..instead of re-placing..she would exclaim—‘there's that tiresome slide gone’. 1897Army & Navy Stores List 271 Tortoiseshell slides for the hair, 1/0. 1932L. Golding Magnolia Street iii. ix. 593 That slide which has just slid out of her hair on to the parquet floor. 1952M. Laski Village ii. 33 Her soft brown hair caught back with a slide. 1981J. B. Hilton Playground of Death ii. 10 There wasn't a grip, clip or slide on the market that would keep my mam's hair up.
7. a. A slip of glass or other material on which an object is mounted or placed to facilitate its examination by a microscope.
1837Goring & Pritchard Microgr. 14 That part of the old compound microscopes which used to carry the slide of object-glasses. 1895G. E. Davis Pract. Micros. (ed. 3) 375 Objects are generally mounted upon glass slides, or ‘slips’, as they are sometimes called.
b. A picture prepared for use in a magic lantern or stereoscope (now chiefly Hist.); a photographic transparency for use in a slide projector.
1819M. Edgeworth Let. 17 Apr. (1971) 199 You know him and his magic lantern of good things. Some new figures on the slides. 1846Dickens Cricket on Hearth i, He had even lost money..by getting up goblin slides for magic lanterns. 1858Edinb. Rev. July 207 His history..passes before us like a series of slides in a magic lantern. 1890Atkinson Ganot's Physics 598 A stereoscope..which will give us, with the ordinary stereoscopic slides, a reversed picture. 1940P. E. Boucher Fundamentals of Photogr. (1941) xiii. 200 Valuable slides..which are to be subjected to considerable use should be mounted in glass. 1978M. J. Langford Step by Step Guide to Photogr. 176 Before presentation, your slides must be inserted in holders ready for projection.
c. Photogr. A flat case or receptacle within which plates are placed for the purpose of being inserted in a camera. Freq. dark slide.
1856Orr's Circ. Sci., Pract. Chem. 184 It is best to let the water dry off previously to the plate being placed in the slide. 1876Abney Instruct. Photogr. 166 The sensitized plate in the dark slide. 1878― Treat. Photogr. 216 The slide is divided into two parts, hinged so as to fold one against the other.
8. Rowing. A sliding seat.
1875Stonehenge Brit. Rur. Sports (ed. 12) 643/1 A well-known amateur who..had never used the slide. 1894Lehmann in Daily News 6 Feb. 3/5 In 1871 a crew of professionals used a seat that slid on the thwarts, and beat a crew that was generally held to be superior, and from that moment slides, as we now know them, came into general use.
III. 9. A smooth surface, esp. of ice, for sliding on, or formed by being slid on; a slippery place.
1687Miége Gt. Fr. Dict. ii, Slide, a frozen place slid upon. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxix, Mr. Pickwick..took another run and went slowly and gravely down the slide. 1856Thackeray Lett. Wks. 1901 X. p. xxvii, A poor old gentleman slipped down and broke his thigh on a slide. 1899B. Capes Lady of Darkness xi. 91 A perfect little slide of grease that had formed on the boards below.
10. a. An inclined plane for the transit of heavy goods, esp. timber. Chiefly Amer.
1832Babbage Econ. Manuf. xxviii. (ed. 3) 282 The mines of Bolanos..are supplied with timber from the adjacent mountains by a slide similar to that of Alpnach. 1878Lumberman's Gaz. 16 Mar., The logs are then placed in the trough of the slide and very easily drawn by horses to their destination. 1886B. Harte Snowbound 127 A slide was a rude incline for the transit of heavy goods that could not be carried down a trail.
b. Amer. A sloping channel constructed to facilitate the passage of logs down stream; a chute.
1858in Simmonds Dict. Trade. 1880Lumberman's Gaz. 7 Jan. 28 The government constructs ‘slides’ for the passage of timber around shoals or rapids where there are no canals. 1884S. E. Dawson Hdbk. Canada 20 The streams for floating timber to market have been opened up by slides, booms, and dams.
c. The bottom of a gold-washing cradle.
1855W. Howitt Land, Labour & Gold I. 206 We take the fine gravel out of the slide of the cradle. 1864J. Rogers New Rush II. 27 The heavier gold remaining on the slide.
d. A structure with a smooth sloping surface used as a toy or piece of playground equipment down which children slide, or as an entertainment at a fairground. Cf. chute n.1 3 c.
1890Century Mag. Advertising Suppl. Dec. 70 Wood's parlor toboggan slide. The most satisfactory toy yet invented for children. 1924Ladies' Home Jrnl. Nov. 126/1 This kiddies' slide is more fun than the old cellar door! 1954R. Dahl Someone like You 210 All week the swings and the see-saws and the high slide with steps going up to it stood deserted. 1975I. Starsmore English Fairs iv. 92 (caption) The Portable Slide. Height 29 ft... The three 100 ft. lanes guide ‘passengers’ down the slide. 1979‘J. le Carré’ Smiley's People (1980) xxi. 257 There was a children's slide in the garden.
11. a. A device of the nature of a bed, rail, groove, etc., on or in which a thing may slide.
1846Holtzapffel Turning II. 897 The work to be continually moved to and fro upon the slide or railway, a distance equal to its own length. 1851Greenwell Coal-trade Terms, Northumb. & Durh. 48 Slides, upright rails, of wood or metal, fixed in a shaft, for the purpose of steadying the cages, which have corresponding grooves attached to them. 1869Rankine Machine & Hand-tools Pl. F ii, The hammer⁓head is of cast iron, and works in slides, which are firmly rivetted into the frames.
b. U.S. slang. (See quot. 1932.)
1932Even. Sun (Baltimore) 9 Dec. 31/5 Slide, a trouser's [sic] pocket. 1967‘I. Slim’ Pimp: Story of my Life (1969) iii. 68 How would you like a half a ‘G’ in your ‘slide’?
12. The track of an otter.
1842J. E. DeKay Zool. N.Y. i. 40 The steel trap is placed..at the bottom of one of their slides. 1894Lydekker Roy. Nat. Hist. II. 95 These otters are usually caught in steel traps, which are set beneath the water where one of the ‘slides’ or tracks of the animals leads to the margin.
Add:[III.] [11.] c. U.S. A kind of open-backed shoe or slipper. Usu. in pl.
[1931‘D. Stiff’ Milk & Honey Route 209 Kicks, shoes. Also called slides.] 1975Footwear News 21 July 6 The slide is emerging as a top fashion theme. 1979Arizona Daily Star 8 Apr. b7/4 (Advt.), Our sexy ‘Ursula’ slides are your ticket to a sensational summer! Natural, khaki, white, rust or wine leather vamps on poly bottoms.
▸ Firearms. A sliding mechanism on a firearm. Now spec.: a metal casing either enclosing the barrel and upper part of a pistol, or located behind the barrel, and incorporating or moving with the breech block.
1816Sporting Mag. 48 191/2 The slide [in a gun] still works freely, no rust having been found on the grooves. 1890Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Nov. 7/2 By opening a valve the slide..becomes lineable with the barrel of the gun. 1897Brit. Patent 9871 13 When the breech-bolt is moved to the rear, either by hand or by the powder gases, the breech is opened,..so that, on the release of the breech-bolt, it returns the slide and the breech-bolt to their forward position and thereby closes the breech. 1919J. B. L. Noel Automatic Pistol 13 When unloading an automatic pistol, after removing the magazine always pull the slide or breech back to eject the cartridge which remains in the chamber. 1978A. North & I. Hogg Guns & Gunsmiths II. x. 190 The mass of the breech block needs to be substantially greater than the mass of the bullet, and this was done by making the breech block a part of the much greater component known as the ‘slide’, a metal casing which completely enclosed the barrel and the upper part of the pistol. 2006Australian (Nexis) 1 May 15 In the case of the Browning semi-automatic pistol.., the magazine should be extracted from the butt of the pistol and the slide pulled back to eject the round in the breech.
▪ II. slide
obs. variant of slid a.
▪ III. slide, v.|slaɪd|
Pa. tense slid. Pa. pple. slid (slided, slidden). Forms: (see below).
[OE. slídan, = NFris. slîđe (slîre), sklid, older LG. slîden (slijden), MHG. slîten: for related forms see slidder v. and slead n.]
A. Inflexional forms.
In OE. the conjugation is more fully represented in the compound áslídan (-slád, -slidon, -sliden). In early ME. the short pret. stem appears in the subj. slĭde in the S. Eng. Leg. I. 212/427.
1. a. inf. (and pres., etc.) 1 slídan, 3 sliden, 4 slyden, 5 slidyn; 3– slide (4 slid), 4–7 slyd(e, 5–6 sclyde.
a950Gunthlac v. (1909) 123 Of þære lyfte slidan. a1225Ancr. R. 252 Ȝif eni uoð on uorte sliden. c1250Owl & Night. 1390 Flesches lustes hi makeþ slide. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8150 Þ at makes þy werk slyden o slep. 13..Cursor M. 894 Þou sal slid apon þi brest. c1400Destr. Troy 789 He shulde slyde forth sleghly. 1435Misyn Fire of Love 7 Sclyde doune & comforth me. 1538Bale Brefe Comedy in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 206 Slouthfulnesse shall slyde. 1559W. Cuningham Cosmogr. Glasse 94 Let not this slide out of your memory. 1617Sir W. Mure Misc. xxi. 99 Heir silver brooks doe slyd.
b. 3rd sing. pres. ind. (1 -slit), 3–4 slit, slyt, 5 slitte.
a1225Ancr. R. 252 He slit & falleð sone. a1310in Wright Lyric P. xxxix. 110 Hit is muche wonder that he nadoun slyt. c1386Chaucer Can. Yeom. Prol. 129 It slit awey so faste.
2. pa. tense. (α) (1 -slád); north. and Sc. 4–5 slad, 5, 8– slade; 4–5 slayd (5 slayde), 4– slaid, 9 slaed, etc.
13..Cursor M. 23222 (Edinb.), Þoh a firin fel..þar into slad. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 701 The schippys our the wawys slayd. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 5456 Þa waters sone away slade. 1533Bellenden Livy (S.T.S.) I. 120 Ane serpent slaid..out of ane pillare. 1591Jas. I Poet. Exerc., Chorus Venetvs, Our enemies feet they slaid. 1721Ramsay Lucky Spence xiv, I slade away wi' little din. 1785Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxvi, The wife slade cannie to her bed.
(β) 4–5 slood (slod), 4–7 slode; 9 dial. slod.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1182 In slomeryng he slode. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) VII. 237 He slood wiþ his oon foot. 1470–85Malory Arthur ix. xviii. 365 His swerd slode adoune. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cclxx. 403 He slode and fell downe. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 257 We slode step by step.
(γ) 5–6 slydde, 6–7 slidde, 6– slid.
c1450Myrr. our Ladye 198 All thynges that slydde vnto them. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. iv. 32 Whiles..they softly slid. 1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. iv. iv, I slidde downe..into the streete. 1676–7Marvell Corr. cclxxxiii. Wks. (Grosart) II. 515 This slid over.
(δ) 6 slyded, 5– slided.
c1489Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xiv. 345 The swerde slided vpon the helme. c1580J. Hooker Life Sir P. Carew in Archæol. XXVIII. 121 His foote slyded or slipped. 1681Rycaut tr. Gracian's Critick 187 Others slided along with a good Air. a1774Goldsm. Surv. Exp. Philos. (1776) I. 269 A number of parts..which slided. 1826Hood Last Man 20 Then down the rope..I slided.
3. pa. pple. (α) 3 islide, 4 islyde, 5 (y)slide.
c1250Owl & Night. 686 Hit nis of horte islide. 13..in E.E.P. (1862) 132 Hou sone þat hit is forþ islyde. a1420Bible Prov. xxiv. 10 Thou that hast slide [v.r. yslide].
(β) (1 -sliden), 4–5, 7 sliden (4 -un, 5 -on), 4–5 slyden (5 -yn); 4 Sc. sclyddyn, 5 Sc. slyddin, 6 slydden, 6– slidden (9 dial. sledden).
1375Barbour Bruce xvii. 126 Sum ar slyddin our the wall. 1382Wyclif Lam. iii. 53 Slyden is in to a grene my lyf. 1392in Fraser The Lennox (1874) II. 48 Throw errour sclyddyn. c1450tr. De Imitatione iii. lx, Sliden & viciat by þe first man. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 9 The truth whence ye haue slydden. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 14 Now changed and sliden backe. a1697Aubrey Surrey IV. 148 A great Part..is slidden down into the Grounds below. 1881E. Coxon Basil Plant I. 64 So easily had he slidden back into his old habits.
(γ) 6 slyded, -yd, 7– slided.
1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xxii. 37 Myne ankles haue not slyded. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxxv. §7. 301 Other spirits which..would haue slided downe more leisurely. 1776Semple Building in Water 36 This Block must be slided over to c. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Chesterf. & Chatham, We have slided into Cicero's language.
(δ) 7– slid.
a1700Evelyn Diary (Chandos Classics) 188 He had slid and fall'n. a1751Bolingbroke Ess. i. vii. Wks. 1754 III. 489 They have not only slid imperceptibly. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xiv. 95 Before I had slid a dozen yards.
B. Signification.
I. intr.
1. a. To pass from one place or point to another with a smooth and continuous movement, esp. through the air or water or along a surface.
a950Guthlac v. (1909) 123 Ða comon semninga tweᵹen deoflu to him of þære lyfte slidan. 1375Barbour Bruce iii. 701 The schippys our the wawys slayd. 1382Wyclif 2 Sam. xxii. 11 He..slood vpon the pennys of the wynd. c1400Destr. Troy 12690 [Þai] Letyn sailes doune slide sleghli & faire. a1547Surrey æneid ii. 302 Thus slided through our toun The subtil tree. a1599Spenser F.Q. vii. vii. 43 Two fishes..Which through the flood before did softly slyde And swim away. 1629Quarles Arg. & Parthenia iii. 2 April's gentle showers are slidden downe, To close the wind-chapt earth. 1667Milton P.L. viii. 302 He took me rais'd,..over Fields and Waters, as in Aire Smooth sliding without step. 1712Addison Spectator No. 369 ⁋9 The Gods..slide o'er the Surface of the Earth by an uniform Swimming of the whole Body. 1789J. Williams Min. Kingd. I. 214 The vestige of the coal is sure to slide down the slope of the ground. 1824Landor Imag. Conv., Gen. Kleber & French Officers Wks. 1853 I. 43/1 The officer slided with extended arms from his resting-place. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 401 The metal could be made to slide upon itself without puckering. 1871Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (1879) I. xii. 364 Whitish-green spots..over which the pencil usually slid as if the spots were greasy.
b. To move in this manner while standing more or less erect upon a surface, esp. that of ice.
Formerly used of skating, now distinguished from it.
c1340Nominale (Skeat) 164 M[an] sliduth vp-on hyse. 1530Palsgr. 721/1, I have sene one in Hollande slyde as faste upon the yse as a bote dothe in the water whan it is rowed. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. ii. xxi. 58 b, [He] mounteth vpon your backe, and so with his feet slydeth vp and downe vpon you. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 34 The Virgins in Holland,..hand in hand with young men, slide upon the yce farre from their Fathers house. 1681Dryden Span. Friar iii. ii, As Boys [fear] to venture on the unknown Ice, That crackles underneath 'em while they slide. 1715Desaguliers Fires Impr. 38 Those that Slide, Scate, or use any other violent Exercise in frosty Weather. 1776Johnson in Boswell (Oxf. ed.) I. 41, I answered I had been sliding in Christ-Church meadow. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xvii. IV. 4 Many thousands came sliding or skating along the frozen canals. 1883Harper's Mag. Dec. 93/1 ‘Do you slide?’ ‘I never have slidden much.’
c. To slip off something.
1623Bingham Xenophon 68 The Souldiers..vpon whom the Snow fell, and slid not off, became miserably distressed. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters III. 300 A..white precipitate subsides to the bottom, and slides off the glass.
d. Baseball. To perform a slide (sense 1 e).
1891Harper's Weekly 23 May 391/4 His base running, in spite of his care about sliding, is of the old-time quality that has already won two championships for Yale. 1904J. J. McGraw Science of Baseball 67 He shouldn't slide unless his pants are properly padded. 1932Baseball Mag. Oct. 501/2, George Watkins, quick to grasp Dazzy's slight slip, turned on a full burst of speed and slid across home plate with the only run of the game. 1977Rolling Stone 30 June 76/2 Do you always think about baseball players when you're making love?.. I couldn't figure out why you kept yelling, ‘Slide!’
e. Surfing. To ride across the face of a wave.
1931Country Life in Amer. Jan. 57 If the wave proves exceptionally steep, keep to the stern of the board and then, after you ‘catch’ the wave, head the board at an angle to it. This will enable you to ‘slide’ with the wave. 1959J. Bloomfield Know-How in Surf iii. 27 The gradually breaking crest enables the body to slide down its front at an angle of approximately 45 degrees.
f. Curling. To move forwards while delivering the stone.
1936F. B. Talbot Mr Besom starts Curling xiii. 34 Many good players slide out of the hack as they deliver the stone. 1950K. Watson Curling i. 1 Whether you slide or do not slide, that follow-through is essentially the smooth delivery of the stone.
2. Of streams, etc.: To glide, flow. Now rare.
1390Gower Conf. II. 266 A wounde upon his side Sche made, that therout mai slyde The blod withinne. a1425Cursor M. 11984 (Trin.), Ihesu soone in þat tide lett þe watir rynne & slide. 1513Douglas æneid v. xiii. 71 The flude Tibir throw Lawrent feildis slidis. c1586C'tess Pembroke Ps. xlvi. ii, A river streaming joy, With purling murmur safelie slides. 1633P. Fletcher Pisc. Eclogs i. v, Where Thames and Isis heire By lowly æton slides. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. i. xiii. 32 To suck out the wheyish Blood which slides along that way. 1738Common Sense II. 176 It has neither rushed down the Rock, nor slided thro' the Plain. 1746W. Mason On the Cam Poems 1830 II. ii. 49 Without a rill the even tide Slided silently away. 1819J. H. Wiffen Aonian Hours 90 Ever from his lid a tear would slide. 1833Tennyson Eleänore 109 As waves that up a quiet cove Rolling slide.
3. Of reptiles, etc.: To glide, crawl. Now rare.
a1300Cursor M. 894 Þou worm,..þou sal slid apon þi brest. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxix. (Cosmo & D.) 261 As þe serpent had entre in at his mouth,..one þe sammyne wise it slad oute. a1400in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1878) 222 Neddre,..vppe þi breste þou schalt slyden. 1530Palsgr. 721/1 It is a wondrouse thyng to se an adder or a snake slyde so faste as they do and have no fete. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. xiii. 44 These slippery snakes doe slide away. 1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 601 He espyed the Snake to slide up into the bed-straw. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. ii. 39 These thieves slide cunningly along upon their bellies like Snakes. 1856[see sliding ppl. a. 3].
4. a. To move, go, proceed unperceived, quietly, or stealthily; to steal, creep, slink, or slip away, into or out of a place, etc.
1382Wyclif 1 Kings xx. 39 Keep this man; the which if were slyden aweye, thi lijf shal be for the lijf of hym. a1400–50Alexander 4456 Quen ȝe ere slide hyne. c1470Henry Wallace viii. 1333 Slely he slayd throuch strenthis off Scotland. 1530Palsgr. 721/2 Who wolde ever have thought it, that he shulde have slydden out at this narow hole. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. i. 54 So slyding softly forth, she turnd as to her ease. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. iii. Wks. 1856 I. 33 Then, noble spirit, slide, in strange disguise, Unto some gratious Prince. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 594 The slipp'ry God will..attempt to slide away. 1742Richardson Pamela III. 365 You observe how he slid away..as soon as I open'd my Door. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) I. 126 Slouching my hat, I slid out of doors. 1829Lytton Devereux ii. iii, Steele slid into a seat near my own. 1889D. C. Murray Dang. Catspaw 7 An officer of the court slid to the door of the judge's apartments.
fig.c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxxviii. (Adrian) 212 Hou þu had grace criste for to kene,..and þu fra hym þis [= thus] slad! 1594Kyd Cornelia iii. i, He slides More swiftly from mee then the Ocean glydes.
b. colloq. To make off. Orig. U.S.
1859Bartlett Dict. Amer. 415 To slide, to go, be gone, be off. 1873B. Harte Fiddletown, etc. 85 She led William where he was covered by seventeen Modocs, and—slid! 1904[see busy n.2]. 1932E. Wallace When Gangs came to London xxvii. 269 There's only one word that any sensible man can read in this situation, and that word is—slide!
II.
5. a. To pass away, pass by, so as to disappear, be forgotten or neglected, etc. Now rare.
c1250Owl & Night. 686 For Alured seyde of olde quide & yet hit nis of horte islide. 13..in E.E.P. (1862) 132 Knowe þis worldly honoure Hou sone þat hit is forþ islyde. c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 769 Bothe Troylus and Troye toun Shal knotteles thorugh out here herte slyde. c1400Destr. Troy 4032 Frostes were faren,..The slippond slete slidon of the ground. 1503S. Hawes Examp. Virt. xiv. ccxcviii, That his redolent buddes shall not slyde But euer encrease. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist. (1663) 60 Thus this slander slided away with the time. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 391 Presently the black hairs will fall and slide away, and in some short time there will come white. 1824Lamb Elia ii, Capt. Jackson, Alack, how good men, and the good turns they do us, slide out of memory.
b. With let (or allow). In later use freq., to let (something) take its own course.
c1386Chaucer Clerk's T. 26 In his lust present was al his thoght,..Wel ny alle othere cures leet he slyde. a1400Minor Poems from Vernon MS. I. 492 [Let him] put his wylle in gode þewes, And alle wikked let slyde. c1440J. Capgrave Life St. Kath. i. 935 Ȝe wyl not lete þis mater slyde, parde. a1586Sidney Arcadia ii. (1590) 107 With a calm carelessness, letting each thing slide. 1596Shakes. Tam. Shr. Ind. i. 6 Therefore..let the world slide. 1611Cotgr. s.v. Chargé, To take no thought, passe the time merrily, let the world slide. a1859in Bartlett Dict. Amer. (ed. 2) 241 If California was going to cost the Union so much, it would be better to let California slide. 1885Manch. Exam. 3 June 5/1 The question at issue was not allowed to slide. 1897Field 6 Feb. 166/1 The supine way we English have of letting things slide.
c. Of time: To pass, slip away, go by, imperceptibly or without being profitably employed.
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 351 So sholdestow endure, and laten slyde The tyme. 1390Gower Conf. II. 3 Thus have I lete time slyde For Slowthe. 1592J. Davies Immort. Soul xxx. x, Since our Life so fast away doth slide. c1600Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 824 The season With slowthing slyds away. 1620T. Granger Div. Logike 147 Time slides away like the running streame. 1716–8Lady M. W. Montagu Lett. I. xii. 44, I need not..tell you how agreeably time slides away with me. 1734Fielding Old Man taught Wisdom Wks. 1784 III. 119 How happily must my old age slide away. 1860Hawthorne Marble Faun (1879) II. vii. 76 Let the warm day slide by. 1897Watts-Dunton Aylwin i. iv, In this manner about six weeks slid away.
6.
†a. To fall asleep, etc. Obs.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 8150 By-neþe þe erþe..Is a water rennyng dep, Þat makes þy werk slyden o slep. 13..E.E. Allit. P. A. 59, I slode vpon a slepyng slaȝte. c1400Destr. Troy Prol. 6 Off aunters [that] ben olde..And slydyn vppon slepe by slomeryng of Age. c1470Henry Wallace vii. 68 Apon a sleip he slaid full sodandly. 1513Douglas æneid vii. Prol. 111 On slummyr I slaid full sad.
b. To pass easily or gradually into some condition, practice, etc. † Also in early use with to.
In some contexts there is connexion with sense 9.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ii. iv. (1495) 31 Aungels neuer slyde to vice nother to synne. c1450tr. De Imitatione i. xxv. 38 He þat eschuiþ not smale defautes, litel & litel shal slide in to gretter. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. i. ix, That ye to fraylte shall not slyde. 1579W. Wilkinson Confut. Fam. Love 79 b, When they shall here any of the Familie slide into any of these affirmations. 1754Young Centaur ii. Wks. 1757 IV. 137 Thus, looking out for some shadow of excuse, we naturally slide into groundless doubts. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wm. (1767) I. vi. 230 She will.., when her province is enlarged, slide into the duties of it with readiness. 1802Mrs. J. West Infidel Father II. 128 Even Lord Glanville, while he made his bow, so far slided into equivoque [etc.]. 1847Helps Friends in C. I. iii. 36 When an honourable man..slides into some dishonourable action. 1871Carlyle in Mrs. Carlyle's Lett. I. 144, I had slid into something of correspondence with Lockhart.
c. To pass by easy or gradual change or transformation into some other form or character.
a1500Sir Cawline xxii. in Child Ball. II. 59/1 The timber these two children bore Soe soone in sunder slode. 1731Pope Ep. Burlington 66 Parts answ'ring parts shall slide into a whole. 1763J. Brown Poet. & Music vii. 143 The Narrative..did easily slide into dramatic Representation. 1847Helps Friends in C. I. vi. 96 The great danger..of representative government, is lest it should slide down from representative government to delegate government. 1862Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VIII. lxiv. 99 Rhetorical amplifications slid swiftly into direct mis-statements. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiv. 503 It was an easy step for the patron to slide into the beneficiary.
7. a. To move, pass, make way, etc., in an easy or unobtrusive manner.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iii. pr. xii. (1868) 106 The deuyne substaunce..ne slydeþ nat in to outerest foreine þinges. c1386― Can. Yeom. Prol. 129 That science is so fer vs beforn, We mowen nat..It ouer-take, it slit awey so faste. a1400Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. lii. 149 Mony folk slod to helle slider. c1450Myrr. Our Ladye 198 Righte so the holy goste vouched safe to slyde in to the hartes of the prophetes. 1577F. de Lisle's Legend. C ij b, Seeking..to slyde in among the princes, and beare the like port as they. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. 255 The Fall Of Eden's old Prince; whose luxurious pride Made on his seed his sin for ever slide. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 14 The which places of the Sunne are now changed and sliden backe in the Iulian Kalender. 1697Collier Ess. (1702) ii. 183 A good Conscience..makes him slide into the Grave by a more gentle and insensible Motion. 1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) I. i. 2 So desirous..of sliding through life to the end of it unnoted. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Vind. Rights Wom. 8, I shall try to avoid that flowery diction which has slided from essays into novels. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 136 The poet's verse slides into the current of our blood. 1858Holmes Aut. Breakf.-t. iii. 25 All lecturers..have ruts and grooves in their minds, into which their conversation is perpetually sliding.
b. Of speech or music, or with reference to these; spec. (see quot. 1875).
1553T. Wilson Rhet. (1580) 3 Euery Orater should earnestly labour to file his tongue, that his woordes maie slide with ease. 1864Browning Abt Vogler xii, I feel for the common chord again Sliding by semitones. 1875Stainer & Barrett Dict. Mus. Terms s.v., To slide is to pass from one note to another without any cessation of sound, or distinction between the intervals.
c. Of the eye or sight: To pass quickly from one object to another.
1756Burke Subl. & B. iii. xv, The deceitful maze, through which the unsteady eye slides giddily. 1784Cowper Task i. 511 The weary sight..slides off, Fastidious, seeking less familiar scenes.
III. 8. a. To slip; to lose one's foothold.
a1225Ancr. R. 252 Þer on geð him one in one sliddrie weie, he slit & falleð sone. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 212 Heo was so slider, þat man ne miȝte þare-oppe gon bote he slide and felle a-doun. 1375Barbour Bruce x. 596 For hapnyt ony to slyde or fall, He suld be soyne to-fruschit all. 1485Caxton Paris & V. 18 Hys hors slode and thenne geffroy overthrewe to the erthe. 1530Palsgr. 721/2 He slydde and bothe his fete folded underneth him. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VIII, 213 To the entent that the horses should not slide on the Pavement. a1700Evelyn Diary (Chandos Classics) 187 Capt. Wray's horse..slid downe a frightfull precipice. 1763–5Churchill The Times Poems 1767 II. 19 So sure, they walk on ice, and never slide. 1819Shelley Cenci iii. i. 12, I see a woman..motionless, whilst I Slide giddily as the world reels.
fig.1388Wyclif Lam. iii. 53 My lijf slood in to a lake. 1390Gower Conf. III. 241 He makth a treigne, Into the which if that he slyde, Him were betre go besyde. 1624Massinger Renegado v. vii, Tho' the descent Were steep as hell, I know I cannot slide. 1668Bp. Hopkins Serm. (1685) 45 We are apt to slide off from the smoother part of our lives, as flies from glass. 1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. Wks. 1907 VI. 399 It is not possible that the downhill should not be slid into.
b. Of the foot: To slip. Also fig.
1340Ayenb. 149 Huanne þe on uot slyt, þe oþer him helpþ. 1382Wyclif Deut. xxxii. 35, Y shal ȝeeld to hem in tyme, that the foot of hem slyde. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 147 b/1 Hys foot slode so that he fyl in to the Ryuer. 1535Coverdale 2 Sam. xxii. 37 Thou hast enlarged my goinge vnder me, and myne ankles haue not slyded. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. xi. 45 His nigh forwearied feeble feet did slide, And downe he fell. 1831Scott Cast. Dang. xx, His foot sliding in the blood of the young victim.
c. In general use: To slip. Also with advs. and preps.
1388Wyclif Deut. xix. 5 The yrun slidith fro the helue,..and sleeth his freend. c1400Anturs Arth. 617 The swerde sleppis on slante, and one the mayle slydys. 1470–85Malory Arthur i. xvi. 58 The swerd slode doune by the hauberk behynde his back. 1610P. Barrough Physick ii. xii. (1639) 90 Their temples be slidden downe, their eyes be hollow. 1680Moxon Mech. Exerc. xiii. 228 Its point will not describe a Circle on the greatest Extuberances of the Globe, but will slide off it. 1748Johnson Vis. Theodore Wks. 1796 II. 399 The declivities grew more precipitous, and the sand slided from beneath my feet. 1834W. Godwin Lives Necromancers 340 Just as he thought he had caught him by the hand, the miserable wretch slided from between his fingers. 1859Tennyson Merlin & V. 737 The snake of gold slid from her hair.
fig.1820Scott Monast. xxii, Muttering these last words, which slid from him, as it were unawares.
9. fig. To lapse morally; to commit some fault; to err or go wrong.
a1000Salomon 378 Ðonne he ᵹeong færeð, hafað wilde mod,..slideð ᵹeneahhe [etc.]. c1250Owl & Night. 1390 Nis wunder nou þah he abide, Vor fleysses lustes hi makeþ slide. 1382Wyclif Ecclus. xix. 16 Ther is that slideth in his tunge, but not of inwit. 1436Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 182 When grace shynethe sone are wee slydynge. c1540Coverdale tr. Calvin's Treat. Sacrament C ij, The rule, whyche yf we folowe, we shall neyther slyde nor erre. a1591H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 266 The strong and just God, that consumed Nineveh slidden back. 1606Carpenter Solomon's Solace vi. 23 No man so wise but he may by an occasion slide. 1738Wesley Ps. v. 5 Lead me in all thy righteous Ways, Nor suffer me to slide. 1779Cowper Olney Hymns xli, I find myself a learner yet, Unskilful, weak, and apt to slide. 1868J. Edmeston in Sacred Poetry 143 The Saviour suffers when his children slide.
10. Sc. (See quot.)
a1814Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th c. (1888) II. 68 It was imagined they would slide—i.e., ‘lose beef and tallow’—by the change of food.
IV. trans.
11. To cause to move with a smooth, gliding motion; to push over a level surface.
c1537J. London in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. iii. III. 132 Then must they putt in to the trowgh a peckke of oots, and when they wer oons slydyd vndre the Awter [etc.]. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. ii. xvi. 93 Then slide your Sight-Vane a little higher towards V. 1683Moxon Printing x. iv. 43 The Tennants of the Till being slid in through the Cutting-in aforesaid. Ibid. xv. i, They may be slid forwards so far. 1793Smeaton Edystone L. §225 note, We slid the stones to their respective places. 1815J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art I. 80 The cheeks must be of such a height, that the cutter-frames can be slidden along upon them. 1843Holtzapffel Turning I. 211 The right hand being slided towards the head in the act of lifting the hammer. 1877W. R. Cooper Egypt. Obelisks viii. (1878) 35 The obelisk was slid off from the deck of the galley, on to a low cart.
fig.1779Sheridan Critic i. i, Haven't we the signors and signoras calling here, sliding their smooth semibreves? 1815Scott Guy M. xxxvii, Sliding his whisper from between his lips, which were as little unclosed as possible. 1844Kinglake Eothen viii. (1878) 109 Madly sliding his splendid army, like a weaver's shuttle, from his right hand to his left.
12. With in or into: To introduce quietly or dexterously; to slip (something) into one's hand, etc.
1627Donne Serm. v. (1640) 51 Slide wee in this note by the way. 1677Miége i. s.v. Glisser, To slide his hand into ones pocket. 1713Steele Englishm. No. 8. 50 He was..to slide the Letter into her Hand, but let no Body see. a1748Watts (J.), Little tricks of sophistry by sliding in, or leaving out, such words as entirely change the question, should be abandoned by all fair disputants. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xviii, Sliding into the butler's hand the remuneration, which..was always given by a departing guest. 1841Dickens Barn. Rudge xlviii, Gashford slid his cold insidious palm into his master's grasp. 1871R. H. Hutton Ess. (1877) I. 44 He slides in immediately a very favourite maxim of the religious know-nothing school.
13. To move over, traverse, descend, etc., in a sliding manner.
1621Speght in Farr Sel. Poet. Jas. I, 200 Like a ship that..slides the sea. 1635Quarles Embl. iv. iii, The idle vessell slides the watry lay. 1770Foote Lame Lover i, Frederick Foretop and I were carelessly sliding the Ranelagh round. 1773― Bankrupt i. I flatter'd myself with [the prospect of] gently sliding the down-hill of life.
14. With away: To spend in sliding.
1827Clare Sheph. Cal. 3 Or seeking bright glib ice to play And slide the wintry hours away. |