Verb

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Verb

To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.

* Wordsworth

The river glideth at his own sweet will.

* 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter VI

The water over which the boats glided was black and smooth, rising into huge foamless billows, the more terrible because they were silent.

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To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft.

To cause to glide.

(phonetics) To pass with a glide, as the voice.