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Slide :: Slide (n.) A small dislocation in beds of rock along a line of fissure.

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

Crosshead :: Crosshead (n.) A beam or bar across the head or end of a rod, etc., or a block attached to it and carrying a knuckle pin; as the solid crosspiece running between parallel slides, which receives motion from the piston of a steam engine and imparts it to the connecting rod, which is hinged to the crosshead..

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..

Cathetometer :: Cathetometer (n.) An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces of two columns of mercury or other fluid, or of the same column at different times. It consists of a telescopic leveling apparatus (d), which slides up or down a perpendicular metallic standard very finely graduated (bb). The telescope is raised or depressed in order to sight the objects or surfaces, and the differences in vertical height are th

Backslide :: Backslide (v. i.) To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.

Tumbler :: Tumbler (n.) A movable obstruction in a lock, consisting of a lever, latch, wheel, slide, or the like, which must be adjusted to a particular position by a key or other means before the bolt can be thrown in locking or unlocking..

Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The slipping down of a mass of land from a mountain, hill, etc..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass inadvertently.

Landslide :: Landslide (n.) The land which slips down.

Overslide :: Overslide (v. t.) To slide over or by.

Lapse :: Lapse (v. i.) To slide or slip in moral conduct; to fail in duty; to fall from virtue; to deviate from rectitude; to commit a fault by inadvertence or mistake.

Shoe :: Shoe (n.) A band of iron or steel, or a ship of wood, fastened to the bottom of the runner of a sleigh, or any vehicle which slides on the snow..

Slider :: Slider (a.) See Slidder.

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To move along the surface of any body by slipping, or without walking or rolling; to slip; to glide; as, snow slides down the mountain's side..

Slip :: Slip (v. t.) To cause to move smoothly and quickly; to slide; to convey gently or secretly.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A plate or slip of glass on which is a picture or delineation to be exhibited by means of a magic lantern, stereopticon, or the like; a plate on which is an object to be examined with a microscope..

Slide :: Slide (n.) A sound which, by a gradual change in the position of the vocal organs, passes imperceptibly into another sound..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To slip when walking or standing; to fall.

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

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