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Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc..

Sliding :: Sliding (a.) That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

Faucet :: Faucet (n.) A fixture for drawing a liquid, as water, molasses, oil, etc., from a pipe, cask, or other vessel, in such quantities as may be desired; -- called also tap, and cock. It consists of a tubular spout, stopped with a movable plug, spigot, valve, or slide..

Backslide :: Backslide (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

Runner :: Runner (n.) One of the pieces on which a sled or sleigh slides; also the part or blade of a skate which slides on the ice.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound..

Slide :: Slide (n.) An apparatus in the trumpet and trombone by which the sounding tube is lengthened and shortened so as to produce the tones between the fundamental and its harmonics.

D Valve :: D valve () A kind of slide valve. See Slide valve, under Slide..

Skip :: Skip (n.) An iron bucket, which slides between guides, for hoisting mineral and rock..

Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

Horse :: Horse (a.) An iron bar for a sheet traveler to slide upon.

Lames :: Lames (n. pl.) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

Slide :: Slide (n.) Same as Guide bar, under Guide..

Trammel :: Trammel (n.) An instrument for drawing ellipses, one part of which consists of a cross with two grooves at right angles to each other, the other being a beam carrying two pins (which slide in those grooves), and also the describing pencil..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slip or slide back, in a literal sense; to turn back..

Link Motion :: Link motion () A valve gear, consisting of two eccentrics with their rods, giving motion to a slide valve by an adjustable connecting bar, called the link, in such a way that the motion of the engine can be reversed, or the cut-off varied, at will; -- used very generally in locomotives and marine engines..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another..

Slit :: Slit () 3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.

Slider :: Slider (a.) See Slidder.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A clasp or brooch for a belt, or the like..

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