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To break or dash in pieces; to demolish; as, to elide the force of an argument. [Obs.] Hooker.

An unsymmetrical, divalent, hydrocarbon radical, C2H4 metameric with ethylene but written thus, CH3.CH to distinguish it from the symmetrical ethylene, CH2.CH2. Its compounds are derived from aldehyde. Formerly called also ethidene.

A Greek geometer of the 3d century

Related to Euclid, or to the geometry of Euclid. Euclidian space (Geom.), the kind of space to which the axioms and definitions of Euclid, relative to straight lines and parallel lines, apply; -- called also flat space, and homaloidal space.

A tribe of Ophiuroidea, including the genera Euryale, Astrophyton, etc. They generally have the arms branched. See Astrophyton.

The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

To become fledged; to fledge. [Obs.] Every day build their nests, every hour flidge. R. Greene.

Cold; very cold; frozen. "Gelid founts." Thompson.

The state of being gelid.

In a gelid manner; coldly.

The state of being gelid; gelidity.

p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.

Giving no sure footing; smooth; slippery. [Prov. Eng.] Shingle, slates, and gliddery stones. R. D. Blackmore.

ilent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. The river glideth at his own sweet will. Wordsworth.

p. p. of Glide. Chaucer.

One who, or that which, glides.

The angle, esp. the least angle, at which a gliding machine or aëroplane will glide to earth by virtue of gravity without applied power.

A construction consisting essentially of one or more aëroplanes for gliding in an inclined path from a height to the ground.

In a gliding manner.

ous powder, C4H4O, obtained by heating and dehydrating glycolic acid. [Written also glycollide.]