To move about smoothly and from side to side.
[Indiana:] Wave it at anything that slithers. [Marion:] The whole place is slithering!
To slide.
Some snow slides recorded have exceeded a million tons and slithered down the mountain-side at a speed of 60 miles an hour.
Slithery; slippery.
A limestone rubble.
A sliver.
From Middle English slitheren, alteration of slideren (“to slither, creep”), from Old English slidrian (“to slip, slide, slither”), from Proto-West Germanic *slidrōn (“to slide, slither”), from Proto-...
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