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Slide :: Slide (n.) A surface of ice or snow on which children slide for amusement.

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side..

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

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

Telescope :: Telescope (a.) To slide or pass one within another, after the manner of the sections of a small telescope or spyglass; to come into collision, as railway cars, in such a manner that one runs into another..

Slide :: Slide (n.) The descent of a mass of earth, rock, or snow down a hill or mountain side; as, a land slide, or a snow slide; also, the track of bare rock left by a land slide..

Spline :: Spline (n.) A rectangular piece fitting grooves like key seats in a hub and a shaft, so that while the one may slide endwise on the other, both must revolve together; a feather; also, sometimes, a groove to receive such a rectangular piece..

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

Lap :: Lap (n.) The amount by which a slide valve at its half stroke overlaps a port in the seat, being equal to the distance the valve must move from its mid stroke position in order to begin to open the port. Used alone, lap refers to outside lap. See Outside lap (below)..

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

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

Slider :: Slider (a.) See Slidder.

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

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

Slide :: Slide (n.) An inclined plane on which heavy bodies slide by the force of gravity, esp. one constructed on a mountain side for conveying logs by sliding them down..

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

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..

Recidivous :: Recidivous (a.) Tending or liable to backslide or relapse to a former condition or habit.

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

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

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