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   Glede , n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gleða, Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zool.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]
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   Glide , n. (Zool.) The glede or kite.
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   Glide, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glided; p. pr. & vb. n. Gliding.] [AS. glīdan; akin to D. glijden, OHG. glītan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E. glad.]
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   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.
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   The river glideth at his own sweet will.
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   (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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   (Aëronautics) To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to volplane.
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   Glide, n.
   The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without labor or obstruction.
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   They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts,
   With rapid glide, along the leaning line.
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   Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
   And with indented glides did slip away.
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   (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 (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 19, 161, 162). 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 (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 18, 97, 191).
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   ☞ 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. For voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 17, 95.
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   (Aëronautics) Movement of a glider, aëroplane, etc., through the air under gravity or its own movement.
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