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Backslider :: Backslider (n.) One who backslides.

Inflection :: Inflection (n.) A slide, modulation, or accent of the voice; as, the rising and the falling inflection..

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

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A slide valve.

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.

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

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

Slider :: Slider (n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine..

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

Coast :: Coast (n.) To slide down hill; to slide on a sled, upon snow or ice..

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..

Steem :: Steelyard (n.) A form of balance in which the body to be weighed is suspended from the shorter arm of a lever, which turns on a fulcrum, and a counterpoise is caused to slide upon the longer arm to produce equilibrium, its place upon this arm (which is notched or graduated) indicating the weight; a Roman balance; -- very commonly used also in the plural form, steelyards..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over it.

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

Scene :: Scene (n.) The decorations and fittings of a stage, representing the place in which the action is supposed to go on; one of the slides, or other devices, used to give an appearance of reality to the action of a play; as, to paint scenes; to shift the scenes; to go behind the scenes..

Shears :: Shears (n.) The bedpiece of a machine tool, upon which a table or slide rest is secured; as, the shears of a lathe or planer. See Illust. under Lathe..

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

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

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question..

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