▪ I. slid, n. Now rare.
Also 6 slidd, slydd-.
[Obscurely related to sled n. or slide v.]
A device by which something may be slid along the ground; a sled or sledge; a skid.
| 1513 Life Henry V (Kingsford) 111 A slidd laden with greate stakes and with other greate peeces of greene wood. 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria 244 b, This house may be remoued with trocles, & slyddis. 1657 R. Ligon Barbadoes 112 If they pave the waies, between the Canes, for the Slids and Assinigoes to passe. 1788 Trans. Soc. Arts VI. 203 The advantages of the high wheels, and troughs or slids, over common wheels. Ibid. 207 The troughs or slids which accompany the Carriage, are to be placed under the wheels. 1904 Dundee Advertiser 15 Aug. 6 The hay ‘slipes’ or ‘slids’ for shifting the coles or ricks to the shed. |
b. ? A load sufficient for a sled.
| 1887 Archit. Soc. Dict. s.v., Thirty-four pollards produced a slid, and an average slid produced 13 faggots, or about 7½ slids to a hundred faggots. |
▪ II. slid, a. Sc.
Also 6 slide, slyd(e.
[Related to slide v.]
1. Slippery.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. iii. ii, Ane passage..Hewin in the roche of slid hard marbell stone. 1513 ― æneid vii. vii. 29 Full slyde scho slyppis hir membris our allquhayr. 17.. Ramsay Betty & Kate iii, On a slid stane, or smoother slate. 1737 ― Sc. Prov. (1750) 37 He has a slid grip that has an eel by the tail. 1808 Jamieson, Slid ice, ice that is glib. 1850 Struthers Poet. Wks. II. 239 The brawling burn We ploutered aft, slid eels to snare. 1899– in Eng. Dial. Dict. |
2. fig. a. Mutable, changeable, uncertain.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. lv, The slide inconstant destenie or chance. Ibid. iii. lxxviii, This warldis glorie, Maist inconstant, maist slid and transitorie. |
b. Smooth, polished, sleek, sly.
| 1719 Ramsay Ep. J. Arbuckle 50 Something sae auld⁓farran, Sae slid, sae unconstrain'd and darin. 1721 ― Poems Gloss. s.v., He's a slid lown. 1725 ― Gentle Sheph. i. i, Ye have sae saft a voice, and slid a tongue. 1896 in Eng. Dial. Dict. |
▪ III. slid, ppl. a.
[f. slide v.]
Uttered with a kind of sliding tone.
| 1898 Kipling Day's Work 320 It was the unreproducible slid r, as he said this was his ‘fy-ist’ visit to England, that told me he was a New Yorker. |