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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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Etymology of 'Glade'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Glade" Quotes from Famous Books

... and he stiffened suddenly in strung-up attention. There was, he remembered, a great hemlock close behind him, but he recognized that any movement might betray his presence, and, standing very still, he slowly swept his eyes across the glade. A curious, hard glint crept into them when they rested on one spot where something that looked very much like a slender, forked branch rose above a thicket. Then a small patch of slightly different color from the thicket appeared close beneath, ...

— The Gold Trail • Harold Bindloss

... over the tree tops and flooded the wood with mysterious silver lights and about her rolled the majesty of the stars. We pressed on into the heart of the night. From the dense black depths we emerged at last. An open glade lay before us—the trees falling back to right and left ...

— The Ninth Vibration And Other Stories • L. Adams Beck

... lips were parted, her eyes were steady and level as they gazed searchingly across the sea of grass—as many a nymph, no doubt, hiding from a company of swashbuckling gnomes, must have peeped out to see if her glade were safe before venturing from the wood. In another moment she had left me and run a few steps toward ...

— Wings of the Wind • Credo Harris

... same breath his question was answered. Pushing aside some brush the boys saw before them a small glade or clearing. ...

— The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash - Or - Facing Death in the Antarctic • Captain Wilbur Lawton

... was a natural recess in the mountains, comprising perhaps half an acre, which was covered with grass and stunted oaks, and watered by a spring that gushed out from under a huge bowlder, which had fallen into the glade from the mountains above. Here the robber chief had decided to remain long enough to send a message to Mr. Winters. The horses had been unsaddled, and were cropping the grass, and the Rancheros were stretched out under the shade of the trees—all except two of their number, one of whom, ...

— Frank Among The Rancheros • Harry Castlemon

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