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Outslide :: Outslide (v. i.) To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding..

Valve :: Valve (n.) A lid, plug, or cover, applied to an aperture so that by its movement, as by swinging, lifting and falling, sliding, turning, or the like, it will open or close the aperture to permit or prevent passage, as of a fluid..

Abacus :: Abacus (n.) A calculating table or frame; an instrument for performing arithmetical calculations by balls sliding on wires, or counters in grooves, the lowest line representing units, the second line, tens, etc. It is still employed in China..

Metronome :: Metronome (n.) An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music..

Slide :: Slide (n.) That which operates by sliding.

Slickensides :: Slickensides (n.) The smooth, striated, or partially polished surfaces of a fissure or seam, supposed to have been produced by the sliding of one surface on another..

Shear :: Shear (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact..

Ftiction :: Ftiction (n.) The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion..

Slip :: Slip (n.) To depart, withdraw, enter, appear, intrude, or escape as if by sliding; to go or come in a quiet, furtive manner; as, some errors slipped into the work..

Sled :: Sled (n.) A small, light vehicle with runners, used, mostly by young persons, for sliding on snow or ice..

Sliding :: Sliding (a.) Slippery; elusory.

Slipboard :: Slipboard (n.) A board sliding in grooves.

Traveler :: Traveler (n.) An iron encircling a rope, bar, spar, or the like, and sliding thereon..

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A drag, or sliding piece of wood or iron, placed under the wheel of a loaded vehicle, to retard its motion in going down a hill..

Barrack :: Barrack (n.) A movable roof sliding on four posts, to cover hay, straw, etc..

Glissade :: Glissade (n.) A sliding, as down a snow slope in the Alps..

Pea :: Pea (n.) The sliding weight on a steelyard.

Cam :: Cam (n.) A turning or sliding piece which, by the shape of its periphery or face, or a groove in its surface, imparts variable or intermittent motion to, or receives such motion from, a rod, lever, or block brought into sliding or rolling contact with it..

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..

Slice :: Slice (v. t.) A removable sliding bottom to galley.

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