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▪ I. glide, n.|glaɪd|
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1. a. The action of gliding, in various senses.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 57 The waters glide should still record the same. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iv. iii. 113 [The snake] with indented glides, did slip away Into a bush. 1647A. Farindon Serm. iv. 70 A kind of Majesty..which makes a..pleasing glide into the minds of men. 1781Cowper Charity 186 The ruffian..with the ghostly glide..steals close to your bedside. 1795Paine Age Reason ii. (1819) 83 The glide of the smallest fish..exceeds us in motion. 1812J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 269 With a winged glide this maiden would rove. 1818L. Hunt Sonn. to Keats, Surely as I feel..Overhead the glide of a dove's wings. 1841Whittier Exiles 176 To hear the dip of Indian oars, The glide of birch canoes.
b. spec. in Cricket. A stroke by which the ball is deflected towards long leg by the turned blade of the bat; = glance n.1 1 b. In full glide stroke.
1888Steel & Lyttelton Cricket ii. 67 Fig. 10 shows W. G. Grace attempting the glide... This is a stroke in which W. G. Grace excels. 1897K. S. Ranjitsinhji in Encycl. Sport I. 228/1 There is no more effective stroke on the leg side than the ‘glide’ or ‘glance’. 1911C. B. Fry in P. F. Warner Bk. Cricket xiii. 227 His [sc. Ranjitsinhji's] so-called ‘glide’ strokes. 1955Times 9 July 4/7 Neame was beautifully caught at the wicket off a thin leg glide.
c. A step in certain ballroom dances; a gliding type of dance.
1889Cent. Dict., Glide,..in dancing, a peculiar waltz-step performed in a smooth and sliding manner. 1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz xi. 224 ‘Avalon’..was one of the greatest fox trots of the late ‘glide’ period. Ibid. 230 The original ‘glide two step’ fox trot of the ‘Japanese Sandman’ period. 1939Britannica Bk. of Year 197/1 The ‘Palais Glide’, another group ballroom dance from England, made some headway in America.
d. Aeronaut. The act of gliding; a flight accomplished by gliding.
1902Encycl. Brit. XXV. 103/1 He made over 2000 glides safely, using gravity as a motive power. 1909A. Berget Conquest of Air ii. iii. 175 This descending glide. 1916H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks iv. 43 The Pilot is satisfied that he is now sufficiently high to secure..a long enough glide to earth to enable him to choose and reach a good landing-place. 1940L. B. Barringer Flight without Power v. 87 On windy days..the two ropes can be joined to make an 800-foot line enabling the pilot to get high enough to make a much longer glide. 1955Welch & Irving Soaring Pilot viii. 135 The sort of approach which is often seen on aerodromes—a good deal of air-braking early on followed by a long flat glide—is useless for getting into small fields. 1971Sailplane & Gliding XXII. 364/1 Many hours later Barrie pulled off a ‘fingernail-biting’ final glide to receive a tumultuous welcome.
2. concr. A stream (obs.); also, the gliding portion of a stream, a shallow.
1590Greene Never too late ii. (1600) Q 4 He that in Eurotas siluer glide Doth baine his tresse. 1591― Maiden's Dreame 4 Wks. (Grosart) XIV. 301 A silent spring..The glide whereof gainst weeping flints did beat. 1746Bowlker Angling (1833) 40 The chief haunts of the smaller Greyling are in glides. 1882Gd. Words 604 Both times as he [a fish] reaches the glide he leaves it.
†3. A passage; an avenue (of trees). Obs.
c1710C. Fiennes Diary (1888) 21 A good hall wth 2 parlours and has a glide through the house into the gardens. Ibid. 143 Through a fine Visto or Glide of trees wch runs along ye parke.
4. Mus. and Phonetics. (See quots.)
1835Wilson Dict. Mus., Glide, the slur, to join two successive sounds without articulation, also the unaccented notes or anticipations in a portamento passage. 1856A. J. Ellis Univ. Writing & Printing 6 The Glide and Syllable. When the bow is drawn, while a finger is slid down a violin string, a succession of sounds is heard, called a Glide. When the voice or whisper is continued, while the position of the organs of speech changes from that due to one sound to that due to another, a Vocal Glide is heard. 1867A. M. Bell Visible Speech 69 A series of semi-consonant, semi-vowel sounds..which we call ‘Glides’. 1888Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds §23 The ‘glide’, or sound produced in passing from the one position [of the organs of speech] to the other.
5. Cryst. Plastic deformation of a crystal in which there is a movement of one atomic plane over another, resulting in the lateral displacement of part of the lattice.
1934Nature 16 June 912/1 Glide commences in a single crystal when the shear stress on the glide plane, and in the glide direction, reaches a certain value. 1952Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CLXXI. 225/2 Lead..in single crystal form is, after a few per cent. glide, harder than cadmium. 1954E. O. Hall Twinning ii. 31 The areas where glide occurs then appear as steps on the surface of the crystal. 1960Metallurgia Mar. 125/1 He demonstrates glide, partial dislocations..and a number of other imperfections in structure. 1970Kelly & Hendricks Crystallogr. vi. 169 At low temperature crystals yield plastically by a process called glide.
6. Comb., as glide bomb, a bomb fitted with aerofoils that enable it to glide towards its target when released from an aircraft; hence as v. intr., to drop glide bombs; glide-consonant (see quot.); glide-direction, a direction in a glide-plane in which glide can occur; glide path, the line of descent followed by a landing aircraft; spec. one indicated to the pilot by radar, etc., from the ground; glide-plane Cryst., a plane in a crystal in which glide occurs; also, a symmetry element of a space-lattice such that reflection in the plane followed by a translation parallel to it produces a lattice congruent with the original; glide-sound, in Phonetics, the sound of a glide; glide-twinning Cryst., the formation of a twin by the gliding of adjacent layers of a crystal lattice over one another; so glide-twin; glide-vowel, a vowel which cannot form a syllable by itself; † glide-worm, some kind of worm or snake.
1943Newsweek 8 Mar. 24 A divebomber pilot must be able to glide bomb in certain circumstances. 1943Time 25 Oct. 23/1 The airmen knew that 1,800 fighters equipped with cannon, machine guns, some with glide bombs..are concentrated between Denmark and Belgium. 1954K. W. Gatland Devel. Guided Missile (ed. 2) v. 135 The Petrel..rocket-propelled ‘glide bomb’..was capable of a short undersurface run, the wings and rocket motors breaking off as the missile entered the water close to the target.
1888Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds §33 Glide-consonants in the special sense of the word are consonants formed without any fixed configuration.
1933W. H. & W. L. Bragg Crystalline State I. viii. 198 The relative movement occurs along a definite crystallographic axis lying in the plane, the ‘glide direction’. 1934Glide direction [see 5 above].
1936Electr. Commun. XV. 196/1 The experimentally tested glide path (Gleitweg) process..can be utilized as, for example, in Switzerland, where the glide path is followed down within a few meters from the ground. 1938Jrnl. R. Aeronaut Soc. XLII. 747 Such essential elements as runway localisers, glide path and markers are analysed. Ibid. 490 There is a vertical glide path indicator. 1968Guardian 28 Dec. 1/5 Apollo 8 had to aim at a ‘keyhole’ entrance to the earth, an imaginary corridor only 35 miles wide. This is the so-called ‘glidepath’ they had to shoot at as they entered the upper atmosphere. 1970Times 8 Apr. 10/3 A lower approach, much more like coming down the glide path of an airport, should create fewer troubles from a dust storm raised by the rocket motors.
1895N. S. Maskelyne Crystallogr. i. 7 The glide-planes, in the case of deformed crystals, are..planes along which disruption can be easily effected. 1946Nature 21 Sept. 395/1 Space-groups, rotation-axes, glide-planes. 1963E. S. Hills Elem. Struct. Geol. 117 The relatively high ductility of metals is due to the non-directional nature of the metallic bond.., which permits ready re-establishment of cohesion across glide planes and crystal boundaries.
1911Encycl. Brit. XXI. 465/2 Acoustically speaking..voiceless stops are pure glide-sounds, the stop itself being inaudible. 1933Bloomfield Lang. vi. 96 The intervening non-distinctive glide-sounds that are produced while the vocal organs change their position.
1938W. A. Wooster Text-bk. Crystal Physics ii. 52 The indices of the crystallographic twin..and those of the glide-twin. 1951N. F. M. Henry et al. Interpr. X-Ray Diffraction Photogr. i. 17/2 In certain substances showing the special type of homogeneous deformation called glide twinning the amount of relative displacement is absolutely fixed for a particular glide in a given substance. Ibid., In order to define a glide twin completely, it is necessary to specify (i) the glide plane, (ii) the glide direction, and (iii) the amount of glide. 1957Encycl. Brit. VI. 828I/2 Plasticity [of a crystal] is sometimes associated with glide-twinning, a process in which there is a sudden switching of the atoms to a second stable position related in a definite geometrical way to the first.
1888Sweet Hist. Eng. Sounds §22 These diphthongic or ‘glide-’ vowels are written consonant size.
c1425Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 643/6 Hec incedula, glyde-worme.
Add:[6.] glideslope = glide path above.
1951Aviation Age Sept. 35/1 As you pass over the outer marker and down the *glideslope the approach horizon comes into play. 1962Aeroplane 12 Apr. 27/1 Suitable for mounting anywhere in the aircraft, the glideslope receiver is housed in an ARINC half-height short-quarter ATR case. 1987Pilot Apr. 34/1 A Falco on the ILS will doubtless go exactly where you tell it to go exactly when you tell it, but I'd just as soon trundle down the glideslope in a machine that doesn't need to be told quite so often.
▪ II. glide, v.|glaɪd|
Pa. tense and pa. pple. glided. Forms: inf. 1 glídan, 3 gliden, 4–6 glyde, (5 glyede, 6 glyd), 3– glide, 3rd pers. pres. ind. 4 glit, glyt. pa. tense 1–2 glád (pl. glidon), 3–5 glad, (3 glæd, 4 gladd), 4–5 glade, 5–6 Sc. glaid, 3–5 glod, (3 gload), 4–5 glood(e, 4–6, 9 glode, 5, 7, 9 glid, 7– glided. pa. pple. 1– 4 gliden, 6 glaid, 9 glid, (glode), 7– glided.
[A common WGer. str. vb.: OE. glídan, glád, glidon, gliden corresponds to OFris. glîda, OS. glîdan (Du. glijden; now usually glijen), OHG. glîtan (MHG. glîten, mod.G. gleiten); not found in Goth. or ON., but (prob. by adoption from LG.) in MSw. gliidha (mod.Sw. glida), Da. glide. The OTeut. type is *glîđan, glaiđ-, gliđum, gliđono-; outside Teut. no cognates are known.
The affinity of sense with OTeut. *glađo-, smooth, slippery (see glad a.) is remarkable, but etymological affinity is hardly possible, unless indeed the Teut. root *glī̆đ- was evolved from *slī̆đ- slide v. through the influence of the adj. or its root. The Eng. vb. remained strong until the present century; the usual inflexion is now glided, though glid might be used in the past tense without causing surprise. All other str. forms occurring in recent writings are distinctly archaistic.]
1. intr. To pass from one place to another by a smooth and continuous movement, without effort or difficulty.
a. along the surface of, or through, a liquid.
Beowulf (Z) 515 ᵹit..glidon ofer garsecg. a1000Andreas 498 (Gr.) Þes bat..glideð on ᵹeofone. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 324/69 Þat schip bi-gan to glide. 13..K. Alis. 6194 So wyght undur the water they rideth, So ony schip above glideth. 1513Douglas æneis x. v. 81 And throu the wallis on the tother part [the ship] Glydis away vndir the fomy seis. 1583Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 72 From shoare we be glyding. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena vi. 163 Whilest then the Galleyes..glided on a maine speede. 1649Stanley Europa 9 Down leaps he, Dolphinlike glides through the seas. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk. I. 13 A distant sail, gliding along the edge of the ocean. 1834W. India Sk. Bk. I. 245 We glided gradually past a great number of shipping to the landing-place. 1863G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 183 Harold's own vessel stood the proof, and glode safely over the obstacle. 1871B. Taylor Faust I. ii. 43 One at the window sits..And sees all sorts of ships go down the river gliding.
b. of a liquid, a stream, etc. † In early use often of tears or blood, where flow would now be used.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 43 Alle heore teres beoð berninde gleden glidende ouer heore aȝene nebbe. c1205Lay. 12773 Him gunnen glide teores. c1300Havelok 1851 The blod ran of his sides So water that fro the welle glides. a1400Sir Perc. 537 The teres oute of his eghne glade. c1430Hymns Virg. 28 Al he suffride þat was wisest, His blood to lete doun glide. 1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxii. 92 Quhill blude and wattir did furth glyde. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 234 b, As water glydeth on the erth so our lyfe vanyssheth & passeth. 1597Drayton Heroic Ep. v. 41, I..aske the gentle flood as it did glide If thou didst passe or perish by the tide? 1699Garth Dispens. i. 15 A while his curdling Blood forgot to glide. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 68 The Waters that glide in the Sinuosities of the Earth, meet with Sulphur or Lime. 1707E. Smith Phædra & Hipp. iii. 31 Soft Cydonian Oyl, Whose balmy Juice glides o'er th' untasting Tongue. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 320 Where..brighter streams than fam'd Hydaspes glide. 1802Wordsw. Sonn., ‘Earth has not anything to show,’ The river glideth at his own sweet will. 1848W. H. Bartlett Egypt to Pal. xi. (1879) 246 The little stream glided and rippled by..over its rocky bed. 1885Bible (R.V.) Song Sol. vii. 9 Gliding through the lips of those that are asleep.
fig.1691–1701Norris Ideal World i. ii. 110 Truth..whose..streams..glide through the barren regions of our.. sensible world. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 434 With secret course..Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. 1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 50 The dialogue glides and sparkles like a clear stream from the Muses' spring.
c. of motion through the air. spec. of an aeroplane: to fly without engine power; also trans., to traverse in a glider.
Beowulf (Z.) 2073 Heofones ᵹim glad ofer grundas. a1000Andreas 1304 (Gr.) Sunne ᵹewat to sete glidan under niflan næs. c1175Lamb. Hom. 91 Swa reðe swa his sceada heom on glad heo weren iheled. a1300Cursor M. 11428 Þe stern alwais þam forwit glade. c1386Chaucer Merch. T. 643 The moone..was in to Cancre glyden. ― Sqr.'s T. 385 The vapour which þat fro the erthe glood Made the sonne to seme rody and brood. a1400Morte Arth. 799 Þe worme..Comes glydande fro þe clowddez. c1440York Myst. xxx. 76 Þe sonne..glydis to þe grounde with his glitterand glemys. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 1239 When he saw aungels fra heuen glyde. 1557Tottel's Misc. (Arb.) 116 Whyle, through his signes, fiue tymes great Titan glode. 1615Chapman Odyss. xii. 585 And through, and through the ship, his lightning glid. 1667Milton P.L. xii. 629 The Cherubim descended..Gliding Meteorous, as Ev'ning Mist. 1827J. Montgomery Pelican Island iii. 113 Where glid the sunbeams through the latticed boughs. 1850Mrs. Browning Poems I. 152 On the back of the quick-winged bird I glode. 1865Livingstone Zambesi xxi. 426 One glides with quivering pinions to the centre of the open space. 1910C. C. Turner Aerial Navig. xx. 252 The best means of becoming proficient in flying is first to learn to glide. 1916H. Barber Aeroplane Speaks iv. 53 The Aeroplane with noiseless engine glides over the boundary of the Aerodrome. 1931Times 23 June 17/4 The claim that he was the first man to ‘glide’ the Channel. 1940L. B. Barringer Flight without Power ii. 15 The very efficient high performance gliders can glide a long way without losing much height. 1958D. Piggott Gliding ii. 12 Launching signals and procedure are more or less standard..wherever you glide in England.
d. in general. Now often applied to the progression of a person walking or riding, of a carriage, etc., to express extreme smoothness of movement and the absence of perceptible motion of the limbs, wheels, etc.
a1275in Hist. Holy Rood-tree (1894) 79 So gleam glidis þurt þe glas..þurt þe hoale þurch he gload. c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 443/375 Þat wedur bi-gan to glide, in þe oþur half of þe churche. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 337 An hyll remouyd from his propre place and glode by many a myle. c1611Chapman Iliad xxiii. 655 All rankt, Achilles show'd The race-scope. From the start, they glid. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 679 Th' Infernal Troops like passing Shadows glide. 1805Wordsw. Waggoner i. 43 The Horses have worked with right good-will..And now they smoothly glide along. 1812J. Wilson Isle of Palms i. 35 She glides away like a lambent flame. 1816L. Hunt Rimini iv. 79 Looking round about, As he glode by. 1835W. Irving Tour Prairies 289 The two horsemen glided down from the profile of the hill. a1839Praed Poems (1864) I. 127 In through the lattice did my chariot glide. 1877G. Macdonald Marq. Lossie xlv, Before him glode the shape of Clementina. 1888R. Buchanan City of Dream ii. 40 Mighty priests Glode by on steeds bridled with glittering gold.
2. Said of the mode of progression of reptiles.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 370 Niðful neddre,..sal gliden on hise brest neðer. a1300Cursor M. 11608 Vte o þis coue þan sagh þai glide Mani dragons. c1315Shoreham 161 Opone thy wombe thou schalt glyde. 1390Gower Conf. II. 260 She [Medea] glode forth, as an adder doth. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. i. (1495) 735 Some beestes crepith and glydeth on the grounde. c1440Promp. Parv. 199/1 Glydyn, serpo. 1547Surrey æneid ii. (1557) Bj b, The serpentes twine with hasted traile they glide To Pallas temple. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iii. 645 [The Snake] in some secret Cranny slowly glides. 1819Crabbe T. of the Hall vii. I. 138 There the birds of darkness loved to hide, The loathed toad to lodge, and speckled snake to glide. 1842Mrs. Browning Grk. Chr. Poets 24 Oh, would the serpent had not glode along To Eden's garden-land.
3. To go unperceived, quietly, or stealthily; to insinuate oneself, steal, ‘slip’ into, out of a place.
a1300Cursor M. 16492 Judas..kest þe penis on þe flore, and son a-wai he glad. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C xxi 479 May no grysliche gost glyde þer hit shadeweþ. a1400–50Alexander 358 Þis grete god full of grace sall glide to þi chambre. c1485Inscription Carlisle Cathedral in St. Cuthbert (Surtees) [11] Her by prayers fendys ovt farn [i.e. out of Farne] glad. 1634A. Huish Hymn, O holy Spirit..Vouchsafe into our soules to glide. 1736Earl of Orrery Let. 18 Mar. in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 247 You see, Curll, like his friend the Devil, glides through all key-holes. 1847M. Howitt Ballads, etc. 393 And the Holy Mother of Jesus Glid in with footsteps light. 1850D. G. Mitchell Reveries Bachelor 47 He takes up his hat and glides out stealthful as a cat. 1859Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 148 A great dog-fox as red as the fir-stems through which he glides.
†4.
a. Used in poetry for: To pass from one place to another, to go or come. Also with advs. forth, up, down, etc. Obs.
c1205Lay. 19517 Muche folc him after glæd. a1275Prov. ælfred 618 in O.E. Misc. 136 Drunken mon..Gef him þe weie reme and let him ford gliden. a1300Cursor M. 20830 (Gött.) Fourti dais in erd he badd, Ar he vp till his fadir glad. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 677 Þen glydez forth god, þe god-mon hym folȝez. c1386Chaucer Sir Thopas 193 Forth vp on his wey he glood [v.r. rood], As spark out of the bronde. a1400Sir Perc. 466 Forthirmore ganne he glyde Tille a chambir. c1400Destr. Troy 2996 The lady..glod on fyll gayly. c1450St. Cuthbert (Surtees) 7442 At morne besyde þe way we glade To þe next kirke, messe to here. c1460Towneley Myst. xii. 68 So galy in gere As he glydys. c1475Rauf Coilȝear 484 He is the gayest in geir, that euer on ground glaid. 1513Douglas æneis vii. iv. 12 With swyft pays thai on thare message glaid. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. iv. 23 Like sparke of fire that from the andvile glode.
†b. of a weapon, a blow. (Perh. with the notion of swift or unresisted movement.) Obs.
c1205Lay. 1750 Heo letten to gliden gares swiþe scarpe. 13..K. Alis. 1355 A brod gavelock he lette glide. c1330Arth. & Merl. 5160 On his helme he him smot, Þe ax glod, god it wot. c1380Sir Ferumb. 848 Þorw scheld, haberke, & aketoun þat sper him gan to glyde. c1386Chaucer Knt.'s T. 717. c 1400 Sowdone Bab. 1183 The stroke glode down by his bake. c1450Guy Warw. (C.) 4914 Hys spere thorow the body glode. 1513Douglas æneis ix. vii. 156 The swerd, wyghtly stokit, or than was glaid Throu owt hys cost. [1699Dryden Pal. & Arc. ii. 124 He trembl'd ev'ry Limb, and felt a Smart, As if cold Steel had glided through his Heart. (Echoing Chaucer Knt.'s T. 717.)]
†c. To fall. Obs.
c1205Lay. 800 Leteð the Grickisca gliden to grunde. 13..Coer de L. 5306 Eyther stede to grounde glode, And brake her nekkes. 1370Robt. Cicyle 60 Y felle in pryde, As the aungelle that can of hevyn glyde. a1400Sir Perc. 2116 Righte there appone the faire molde The ryng owte glade. c1460Launfal 575 Another cours togedere they rod, That syr Launfal helm of glod.
†d. Of the eye: To glance, turn aside upon.
c1425Seven Sag. (P.) 2099 The childe lette hys [eyen] glyede Oppon hys maystyr al asyde.
5. a. To slide, move unobstructedly over a polished surface. Also, † to slip, lose one's footing on ice or muddy ground (obs.); to slide on ice as a sport (dial.).
c1290S. Eng. Leg. I. 212/430 For heo [the bridge] was narovȝ, and slider, and heiȝ, þat he ne scholde him so bitelle, Ȝif þat he glufte [v.r. glide] in ani half, þat he ne fulle in-to helle. 1674J. Scheffer tr. Hist. Lapl. 4 The Laplanders gliding upon the ice. 1835–6Todd Cycl. Anat. I. 255/2 One surface glides over the other limited by the ligaments. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Glide, to slide on the ice.
b. To slip away, elude one's grasp, like something greasy.
c1510More Picus Wks. 25 The pleasure, whiche thine euill worke doth contayne, Glideth his way, thou maist him not restraine. 1712Addison Spect. No. 281⁋7. It glided through the Fingers like a smooth Piece of Ice. 1823Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Pop. Fallacies ii, They do not find..that all gold glides, like thawing snow, from the thief's hand.
6. To pass lightly and without interruption along or over a surface. Also transf. of the eye, the mind, etc.
1822Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Detached Th. on Bks., Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents, are for the eye to glide over only. a1834― Let. to Wordsw. Lett. xvii. 162 The light paragraphs must be glid over by the proper eye. 1851Ruskin Stones Ven. (1874) I. xxv. 284 The eye..ought to glide along the basic rolls to take measurement of their length. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. vi, His hand glided from the face and rested on the young man's shoulder.
7. In various immaterial applications.
a. Of time, one's life, etc.: To pass gently and imperceptibly. Also with along, away, † forth, on, etc.
c1250Gen. & Ex. 3460 Quiles ðis daiȝes forð ben gliden. 1500–20Dunbar Poems xi. 6 Hyne glydis all thy tyme that heir is. 1779J. Moore View Soc. Fr. (1789) I. xviii. 143 The hours glide along very smoothly. 1835Marryat Jac. Faithf. xxxvi, My life glided on as did my wherry—silently and rapidly. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. iii, Two serene and innocent years had glided away. 1887Bowen Virg. Eclog. x. 43 Here life ever should glide..beside thee gently away.
†b. Of the Holy Ghost: = proceed. Obs.
a1225Juliana 2 Ant o þes haligastes þat glideð of ham baðen. c1320Cast. Love 1454 Þe Holy Gost þat glit of hem bo.
c. to glide into: to pass by imperceptible degrees into (a condition or state); to fall insensibly into (doing something). Said also of a species, etc.: To shade off insensibly into, have no clear demarcation from (something else).
1800Hatchett in Phil. Trans. XC. 391 Muscle, ligament, and tendon, seem to glide almost imperceptibly into each other. 1825Lytton Falkland 22, I suffer one moment to glide into another. 1842Alison Hist. Europe (1849–50) X. lxvi. §77. 190 All feelings of hostility..glide into those of peculiar courtesy. 1865Dickens Mut. Fr. iii. v, I have glided into telling you the secret. 1869Lecky Europ. Mor. I. ii. 282 The peasant proprietor soon glided hopelessly into debt.
d. Phonetics. to glide on to: (of a consonant or vowel) to be uttered continuously with (the following sound).
[1774: cf. 8.] 1867A. J. Ellis E.E. Pronunc. i. iii. 57 A short accented vowel is in English always followed by a consonant on to which it glides.
8. trans. = to cause to glide (in different senses). Also † to glide away.
1650Trapp Comm. Gen. iv. 17 Silly are they that think to glide away their groans with games, and their cares with cards, &c. 1774W. Mitford Harmony Lang. 48 They sound i, but glide it so imperceptibly into the following vowel that it cannot form a distinct syllable. 1834W. India Sk. Bk. I. 299 Enjoying the..light airs which began to play on the surface of the water, and to glide the vessel quietly on her course. 1893Gunter Miss Dividends 128 Ferdie glides the graceful Louise through the room in poetic motion. 1897W. Anderson Surg. Treat. Lupus 14 The raw surface may be covered in by gliding portions of detached integument from an adjacent part.
9. Cryst. intr. Of particles in a crystal: to move, be displaced. Also of a crystal: to undergo glide. Cf. glide n. 5.
1895N. S. Maskelyne Crystallogr. i. 7 The particles..aligned on all lines parallel to the edge e have..glided into new positions in the crystal-block. 1924A. E. H. Tutton Nat. Hist. Crystals xviii. 215 Many of the softer crystallised substances develop the property of permitting one layer to glide over another by gentle side pressure with a knife blade. 1938W. A. Wooster Text-bk. Crystal Physics ii. 49 The crystal glides on the (0112) plane in the [0111] direction. 1970Kelly & Hendricks Crystallogr. vi. 169 Sapphire crystals can be made to glide at room temperature under a pressure of 25,000 atm.
10. Cricket. intr. To make the glide stroke (see prec. 1 b).
1899Daily News 22 July 4/2 Men were then less apt to ‘glance and glide’, like The Brook, and K. S. Ranjitsinhji. 1927T. E. Casson Century of Roundels 17 Ranjitsinhji, when he glides, Stands at the crease in posture cringy. |