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In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed... No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people. Preface to 1828 Dictionary
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GLIDE, v.i.
GLIDE, n. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly and without labor or obstruction.
The glede or kite.
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. To pass with a glide, as
the voice.
The
act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or
obstruction.
They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, A transitional sound in
speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one
definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most
frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a
regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel
in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or
diphthongal consonant (see Guide to Pronunciation,
§§ 19, 161, 162). Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or
brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of
diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some
consonants (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 18, 97,
191).
* The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides. For voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 17, 95. Movement of a glider, aëroplane, etc., through the air under
gravity or its own movement.
To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to
volplane.
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