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Guillotine :: Guillotine (n.) A machine for beheading a person by one stroke of a heavy ax or blade, which slides in vertical guides, is raised by a cord, and let fall upon the neck of the victim..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To fall from Christian faith into paganism, heresy, or unbelief; to backslide..

Relapse :: Relapse (v. i.) To slide or turn back into a former state or practice; to fall back from some condition attained; -- generally in a bad sense, as from a state of convalescence or amended condition; as, to relapse into a stupor, into vice, or into barbarism; -- sometimes in a good sense; as, to relapse into slumber after being disturbed..

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

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

Slider :: Slider (n.) One who, or that which, slides; especially, a sliding part of an instrument or machine..

Relapse :: Relapse (v.) One who has relapsed, or fallen back, into error; a backslider; specifically, one who, after recanting error, returns to it again..

Lames :: Lames (n. pl.) Small steel plates combined together so as to slide one upon the other and form a piece of armor.

Slide :: Slide (n.) A cover which opens or closes an aperture by sliding over 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..

Backslider :: Backslider (n.) One who backslides.

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

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To pass along smoothly or unobservedly; to move gently onward without friction or hindrance; as, a ship or boat slides through the water..

Gunter Rig :: Gunter rig () A topmast arranged with metal bands so that it will readily slide up and down the lower mast.

Slide :: Slide (n.) Smooth, even passage or progress..

Slide :: Slide (v. t.) To cause to slide; to thrust along; as, to slide one piece of timber along another..

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

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

Vernier :: Vernier (n.) A short scale made to slide along the divisions of a graduated instrument, as the limb of a sextant, or the scale of a barometer, for indicating parts of divisions. It is so graduated that a certain convenient number of its divisions are just equal to a certain number, either one less or one more, of the divisions of the instrument, so that parts of a division are determined by observing what line on the vernier coincides with a line on the instrument..

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