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From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) : [ gazetteer ]


  Glide, OR
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Glede \Glede\ (gl[=e]d), n. [AS. glida, akin to Icel. gle[eth]a,
     Sw. glada. Cf. Glide, v. i.] (Zo["o]l.)
     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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Glide \Glide\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
     The glede or kite.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glided; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Gliding.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG.
     gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E.
     glad.]
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     1. 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.
                                                    --Wordsworth.
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     2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.
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     3. (A["e]ronautics) To move through the air by virtue of
        gravity or momentum; to volplane.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Glide \Glide\, n.
     1. 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. --Thomson.
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              Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself,
              And with indented glides did slip away. --Shak.
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     2. (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, [sect][sect] 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, [sect][sect] 18,
        97, 191).
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     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. For
           voice-glide, see Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect]
           17, 95.
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     3. (A["e]ronautics) Movement of a glider, a["e]roplane, etc.,
        through the air under gravity or its own movement.
        [Webster 1913 Suppl.]