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imp. & p. p. of Slide.

p. p. of Slide.

To slide with interruption. [Obs.] Dryden.

Slippery. [Obs.] To a drunk man the way is slidder. Chaucer.

rface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side.

The game of shovelboard. [Obs.]

See Slidder. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A way along which something slides.

That slides or slips; gliding; moving smoothly.

An instrument for indicating and recording shocks to railway cars occasioned by sudden stopping.

To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

One who backslides.

Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.

The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc.

To slide outward, onward, or forward; to advance by sliding. [Poetic] At last our grating keels outslide. Whittier.

To slide over or by.

lculating 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.

ets, a sort of light armor from Germany, characterized by overlapping plates, arranged to slide on rivets, and thus afford great flexibility.

A large mass or body of snow and ice sliding swiftly down a mountain side, or falling down a precipice.

Back pressure. (Steam Engine) See under Pressure. -- Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning. -- Back slang, a kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man. -- Back stairs, stairs in the back part…