GLIDE Copy link • GLIDElabi (general term for smooth, gentle, continuous motion, through the air, on water; the motion of water itself; of time, etc.): delabi (to glide down): defluere (PROP., to flow down; then to move in a downward direction slowly and gradually; fall down): effluere (to glide away; of time). To glide away unperceived (of time), occulte labi (†).