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noun

Glede n. (Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide) (Zool.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.

Glide n. (Zool.) The glede or kite.

Glide n.

The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction. "They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line." "Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away."

(Phon.) A transitional sound in speech which is produced by the changing of the mouth organs from one definite position to another, and with gradual change in the most frequent cases; as in passing from the begining to the end of a regular diphthong, or from vowel to consonant or consonant to vowel in a syllable, or from one component to the other of a double or diphthongal consonant. Also (by Bell and others), the vanish (or brief final element) or the brief initial element, in a class of diphthongal vowels, or the brief final or initial part of some consonants. Note: The on-glide of a vowel or consonant is the glidemade in passing to it, the off-glide, one made in passing from it. Glides of the other sort are distinguished as initial or final, or fore-glides and after-glides.

(Aeronautics) Movement of a glider, aeroplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.

verb

Glide v. i. (past & past part. glided; pres. part. gliding)

To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise, violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily, or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice. "The river glideth at his own sweet will."

(Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

(Aeronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glide" Quotes from Famous Books

... peculiar and personal touch. By bribery, as I believe, he succeeded in getting himself into the prison as a turnkey. It was his custom, when I lay weak and helpless in the semistupor of starvation, to glide into my cell and, standing by my couch, to recite to me the list of tempting viands that might appear daily upon the board of a Countess ...

— The Cruise of the Jasper B. • Don Marquis

... Mrs. Adair, "forty years of gaiety is the utmost that a female can expect; and in scenes of pleasure, days, months, and years glide swiftly away. The value of time is unknown: at least, it is not properly estimated, till grey hairs, wrinkled features, and a debilitated frame check the career; then eternity, with all its hopes and fears, opens to the view. We will for a moment consider you upon the bed of sickness, surrounded ...

— The Boarding School • Unknown

... kindest, I ask but to be Cherished by thee love, As thou art by me; Then shall our moments Glide sunnily o'er. And blest with each other, We sigh ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Vol. 13, - Issue 352, January 17, 1829 • Various

... appearance to warrant that suspicion. Even if such were the case, this was not the charming region described by the quaint old Walton, where the scholar can turn aside "toward the high honeysuckle hedge," or "sit and sing while the shower falls upon the teeming earth, viewing the silver streams glide silently toward their centre, the tempestuous sea," beguiled by the harmless lambs till, with a soul possessed with content, he feels "lifted above the earth." Nor was the solitary angler of the Dovre Fjeld a man likely to ...

— The Land of Thor • J. Ross Browne

... slopes on which you must glide down. Having once yielded to Dionysia's suggestions, Mechinet had, unconsciously, bound ...

— Within an Inch of His Life • Emile Gaboriau

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