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Slider :: Slider (n.) The red-bellied terrapin (Pseudemys rugosa).

Cursor :: Cursor (n.) Any part of a mathematical instrument that moves or slides backward and forward upon another part.

Slip :: Slip (n.) To slide; to lose one's footing or one's hold; not to tread firmly; as, it is necessary to walk carefully lest the foot should slip..

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Travel :: Travel (n.) The length of stroke of a reciprocating piece; as, the travel of a slide valve..

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..

Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..

Slidegroat :: Slidegroat (n.) The game of shovelboard.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..

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 small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

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

Slide :: Slide (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress..

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) Something which is like a leaf in being wide and thin and having a flat surface, or in being attached to a larger body by one edge or end; as : (a) A part of a book or folded sheet containing two pages upon its opposite sides. (b) A side, division, or part, that slides or is hinged, as of window shutters, folding doors, etc. (c) The movable side of a table. (d) A very thin plate; as, gold leaf. (e) A portion of fat lying in a separate fold or layer. (f) One of the teeth of a pinion, es

Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The land which slips down.

Slidden :: Slidden () p. p. of Slide.

Packing :: Packing (n.) The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides..

Recidivate :: Recidivate (v. i.) To backslide; to fall again.

Cover :: Cover (n.) The lap of a slide valve.

Gunter Rig :: Gunter rig () A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.

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