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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.

Glade n.

An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. "There interspersed in lawns and opening glades."

An everglade. (Local, U. S.)

An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. (Local, U. S.)

Bottom glade. See under Bottom.

Glade net, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades.

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"Glade" Quotes from Famous Books

... mile farther on, crossing in the interval a number of little tributary streams, we came where the pines were more scattered; they soon disappeared, and we emerged upon an open glade or natural meadow. A high mountain, dark with forests, rose on our right; on the left was a long range of grassy hills; but in front all was clear! A government rancho, built under the shade of a couple ...

— Atlantic Monthly Vol. 6, No. 33, July, 1860 • Various

... little old cabin of dead Indian Tom, built in a grassy glade close to the shore of Sucker Creek, came the sound of a man's laughter. In this late afternoon the last flooding gold of the sun filled the open door of the poplar shack. The man's laughter, like the sun on the mottled tapestry of the poplar-wood, ...

— The Country Beyond - A Romance of the Wilderness • James Oliver Curwood

... suppose herself the object of; but Margaret saw how laboriously she strove, and in vain, to eat; how welcome was the glass of wine; how mechanical her singing after dinner; and how impatient she was of sitting still. The strangest thing was to see her walking in a dim glade, in the afternoon, arm-in-arm with Mrs Rowland,—as if in the most confidential conversation,—Mrs Rowland apparently offering the confidence, ...

— Deerbrook • Harriet Martineau

... in every transaction of life. There was little in their new home to cheer them; for the gloomy and unexplored forests shrouded the entire land beyond the barren seashore. Their special enemy, the Indian, always on the alert in some mysterious glade to take advantage of them, was not, in their view, a simple savage. Their clergy, ignorant and fanatic as they were zealous, assured them that the Indians were worshippers and agents of Satan; and it is difficult ...

— The Witch of Salem - or Credulity Run Mad • John R. Musick

... spaces, and the man has to follow the tracks of animals. Sometimes he comes upon a herd of horses feeding in a glade; they turn and look upon him in a round-eyed surprise, and he sees them galloping on the hill-sides, their manes and tails floating ...

— Mike Fletcher - A Novel • George (George Augustus) Moore

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