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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of several birds of prey, especially a European kite (Milvus milvus).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The common kite of Europe, Milvus ictinus or M. regalis: a term sometimes extended to related hawks, as the common buzzard and the marsh-hawk. See kite.
  2. n. An obsolete spelling of gleed.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A live coal, an ember.
  2. n. Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Zoöl.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.
  2. n. Archaic A live coal.

Etymologies

  1. From Old English glida, akin to Icelandic gleetha/gleea, Swedish glada. Compare glide. (Wiktionary)
  2. Middle English, from Old English glida; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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  • fbharjo a bird and an ember.....a pre-phoenix??? Feb 8, 2013

  • hernesheir (n.) A burning coal or cinder. Aug 27, 2009

  • rolig Any of several birds of prey, especially a European kite (Milvus milvus). – Am. Her. Dict.

    Also written gled, gleed, glead, glade, and glide.

    Known also as the red kite.

    In Slovene, rjavi škarnik. May 3, 2008

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