Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several birds of prey, especially a European kite (Milvus milvus).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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 . - n. An obsolete spelling of gleed.
Wiktionary
- n. A live coal, an ember.
- n. Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Zoöl.) The common European kite (Milvus ictinus). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard.
- n. Archaic A live coal.
Etymologies
- From Old English glida, akin to Icelandic gleetha/gleea, Swedish glada. Compare glide. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English, from Old English glida; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, the vulture of the former book is in the latter called the glede; and there are many similar variations, in different parts of the Old Testament, in regard to the others.”
Palestine or the Holy Land From the Earliest Period to the Present Time
“DEU 14: 13 And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind,”
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“KOT BAM, vesolju jim pove, da ne samo, da vaš edinstven pogled na situacijo CREATE FIZIKA glede na svoje realnosti, ampak tudi, da je med vsemi temi stvarnosti SAMO svetlobe ABSOLUTNO.”
“Ali ne, naj ugibam vam bo ne glede na pišče vaš tolkel nositi papirnato vrečko nad glavo in si trak xerox sliko obraza, da ga, ali ne!”
“And the glede, and the kite, and the vulture after his kind”
“Og jeg gjorde det, ble glad i studentene mine, lo og gråt med dem, danset av glede over gode karakterer, og sloss for rom, ressurser og muligheter i alle sammenhenger hvor jeg kunne.”
“It was hot when I first took it, hot as a glede, and my hand was scorched, so that I doubt if ever again I shall be free of the pain of it.”
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“Then came the first glede back and did take a fish, and the second did like-wise.”
“His ba {þ} scal bon wallinde. his bað sca {l} bon berni {n} de glede.”
Selections from early Middle English, 1130-1250 Part I: Texts
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘glede’.
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EN - archaic words
abide, abjure, abroad, adamant, afield, aforetime, aghast, anon, apace, argent, assuage, aught and 328 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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birds
birds with singular names from
at least 9 English dictionariesaasvogel, aberdevine, accentor, accipiter, aepyornis, agami, albatross, alcatras, alcid, alcidine, amadavat, amokura and 1056 more...
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Scrabble
Beginning a list of useful & obscure Scrabble words ...
veinulet, titania, lactean, joual, anomie, edacious, axite, taxite, dace, oorie, gowany, moire and 5 more...
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cotton
Cotton is a blended word with rich flavor. One meaning root is from the semitic root qtn that means to 'become thin or fine'; and the other meaning is from Welsh cytun or cytun that means to ' agr...
cotton, hosanna, Seneca, crab, hock, bow, bark, carousal, limber, rash, beguine, kennel and 26 more...
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Tolkien's archaisms
sigaldry, moot, kine, fey, eyot, ghylls, gangrel, glede, ilexes, laved, niggard, league and 44 more...
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wordhoard
dilatory, ataraxia, hermit, cabana, hut, dome, vestigial, porcine, crapulous, usufruct, curmudgeon, bombastic and 229 more...
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Flora and Fauna
poa annua, pooka, vole, bestiary, popple, turgor, starling, sharpy, copse, coreopsis, clove, corvid and 348 more...
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
barbet, hornbill, trogon, bee-eater, bristlehead, wren-babbler, stubtail, blackeye, bush warbler, cassowary, bowerbird, bird-of-paradise and 722 more...
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pinionated
birds, esp. ones I have personally encountered or would like to
great tit, hooded crow, grebe, petrel, bittern, thrush, capercaillie, quail, glede, corn crake, linnet, harrier and 4 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for glede.
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