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gliddering

gliddering is the present participle and gerund of glidder.

Meaning of glidder

Verb

glidder (third-person singular simple present glidders, present participle gliddering, simple past and past participle gliddered)

  1. (obsolete) To slide.
  2. (obsolete) To glaze over.
    • Madame, you take your Hen,
      Plume it, and skin it, cleanſe it o' the inwards:
      Then chop it, bones and all: adde to four ounces
      Of Carrnnacins, Pipitas, Sope of Cyprus
      Make the decoction, ſtreine it. Then diſtill it.
      And keepe it in your galley-pot well gliddered1616 October or November (first performance), Ben Jonson, The Diuell is an Asse: A Comedie […], London: […] I. B. for Robert Allot, […], published 1631, →OCLC, Act IIIJ, scene iv, page 148

Questions about gliddering

What is gliddering the present participle and gerund of?
Gliddering is the present participle and gerund of glidder.

Words near gliddering in the dictionary

  1. glidazamide
  2. glidden
  3. Gliddens
  4. glidder
  5. gliddered
  6. gliddering
  7. glidders
  8. gliddery
  9. Gliddon
  10. glide
  11. glide bomb

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