3. To pass inadvertently. Beware thou slide not by it. Ecclus. xxviii. 26.
4. To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water. Ages shall slide away without perceiving. Dryden. Parts answering parts shall slide into a whole. Pope.
5. To slip when walking or standing; to fall. Their foot shall slide in due time. Deut. xxxii. 35.
6. (Mus.)
Defn: To pass from one note to another with no perceptible cassation of sound.
7. To pass out of one's thought as not being of any consequence.
[Obs. or Colloq.]
With good hope let he sorrow slide. Chaucer.
With a calm carelessness letting everything slide. Sir P. Sidney.
SLIDE
Slide, v. t.
1. To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another.
2. To pass or put imperceptibly; to slip; as, to slide in a word to vary the sense of a question.
SLIDE
Slide, n. Etym: [AS. slide.]