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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glided}; p. pr & vb n.
{Gliding}.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG.
gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten Sw glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E.
glad.]
1. To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise,
violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily,
or with a smooth, silent 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.
2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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