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)
- To slide.
- 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
- Madame, you take your Hen,
Questions about gliddering
- What is gliddering the present participle and gerund of?
- Gliddering is the present participle and gerund of glidder.
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