overglide
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Verb
[edit]overglide (third-person singular simple present overglides, present participle overgliding, simple past and past participle overglided)
- To glide over.
- c. 1527–1542, Thomas Wyatt, “Penitential Psalms”, in Egerton MS 2711[1], page 91r:
- that ſonne the wych was neuer clowd cowd hide
percyth the cave, and on the harpe diſcendes
whoſe glancỹg light the cordes did ouerglyde
And ſuch luyſter apon the harpe extendes
References
[edit]“overglide”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.