aslide

adj

1. Sliding.

   “It was a rare thing for these boats to be upon the canal and their appearance generally caused no little excitement among skaters, especially the timid; but to-day every ice-boat in the country seemed afloat or rather aslide, and the canal had its full share.”

   “A shower of cinders through the air . . . A grind of blocks of slag aslide . . .”

   “Another [dance], in which one man seemed to fly, one to pursue, in which the hunted seemed to invite the hunter, with a swift skirting movement, his feet aslide, and one elbow crooked—that was the eternal invitation to pursuit and capture, the love-chase of high antiquity.”

   “Another pirate had landed there and a third was just arriving, two more aslide behind him.”

2. Covered (with something sliding).

   “We pour buckets of hot water into the washtub and gather wintergreen to sprinkle in. […] Mistress stands up and rushes to him. Her naked skin is aslide with wintergreen.”