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Overslide, Overslyde, v. Also: ovir-, owerslyd(e. P.p. overslidden, ovir-slide. [ME. (c 1350) and e.m.E. ouerslide: cf. Ourslide v.]

1. intr. Of a period of time: To go by, pass, elapse. c1500-c1512 Dunb. lv. 2.
Madam ȝour men said thai wald ryd And latt this fasterennis ewin ower slyd 1513 Doug. i. v. 94 (Ruddim.).
Ouerslidden 1531 Bell. Boece I. ix.
Ay quhill my tender yeris be ouir slide 1536 Lynd. Answ. Flyting 46.
Lettand the tyme ouerslyde

2. Of an event or action: To pass unnoticed; chiefly with let. 15.. Clar. v. 1818.
I will let it ower slyde 1560 Rolland Seven S. 6388.
Daft vaniteis … At all times he suld let ouirslyde a1568 Bann. MS. 65 b/39.
To latt ouirslyd Sic falsett now as ws offend 1583 Sempill Warning ii.
Tak tyme in tyme and lat na tyme ovirslyd — 1622-6 Bisset I. 15/23.
Sic actis as these [sc. murders] maist sleuthfullie overslydis

3. tr. To glide over. 1513 Doug. i. iii. 91 (1553).
[The ship] Ouerslidand lichtlie the croppis of the wallis Ib. viii. ii. 65 (Ruddim.).
Ouer slyding Ib. x. iv. 90.
Ouer slidis

4. To lose by slipping past, to bypass. a 1574 Three Reformers 14.
With speid we mon provyde And not our proffit to ouerslyde