[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

glede \glede\ gl=ed, n. as. glida, akin to icel. gleetha,
   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.
   1913 webster
see also:
glide milvus ictinus glead gled gleed glade 
glide 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

glide \glide\, n.
   1. the act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without
      labor or obstruction.
      1913 webster

            they prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts,
            with rapid glide, along the leaning line. --thomson.
      1913 webster

            seeing orlando, it unlink'd itself,
            and with indented glides did slip away. --shak.
      1913 webster

   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, sectsect 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, sectsect 18,
      97, 191.
      1913 webster

   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, sectsect
         17, 95.
         1913 webster

   3. a"eronautics movement of a glider, a"eroplane, etc.,
      through the air under gravity or its own movement.
      webster 1913 suppl.

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

glide \glide\, n. zool.
   the glede or kite.
   1913 webster

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

glide \glide\, v. i. imp.  p. p. glided; p. pr.  vb. n.
   gliding. as. glimacdan; akin to d. glijden, ohg.
   glimactan, g. gleiten, sw. glida, dan. glide, and prob. to
   e. glad.
   1913 webster
   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.
      1913 webster

            the river glideth at his own sweet will.
                                                  --wordsworth.
      1913 webster

   2. phon. to pass with a glide, as the voice.
      1913 webster

   3. a"eronautics to move through the air by virtue of
      gravity or momentum; to volplane.
      webster 1913 suppl.
see also:
glided gliding 

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

glide
     n 1: a vowel-like sound that serves as a consonant syn: semivowel
     2: the act of moving smoothly along a surface while remaining
        in contact with it; "his slide didn't stop until the
        bottom of the hill"; "the children lined up for a coast
        down the snowy slope" syn: slide, coast
     3: the activity of flying a glider syn: gliding, sailplaning,
         soaring, sailing
     v 1: move smoothly and effortlessly
     2: fly in or as if in a glider plane
     3: cause to move or pass silently, smoothly, or imperceptibly
see also:
semivowel slide coast gliding sailplaning soaring 
sailing 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

255 moby thesaurus words for "glide":
   accented, acrobatics, advance, aerobatics, aeroplane, airlift,
   airplane, allophone, alveolar, apical, apico-alveolar,
   apico-dental, articulated, articulation, aspiration, assimilated,
   assimilation, avalanche, back, balloon, banking, barytone,
   be airborne, be effortless, be painless, bilabial, broad,
   cacuminal, central, cerebral, chandelle, check, checked, close,
   coast, coasting, consonant, consonantal, continuant, continue,
   crabbing, creep, cruise, dental, diphthong, dissimilated,
   dissimilation, dive, diving, dorsal, drift, elapse, endure,
   epenthetic vowel, expire, explosive, ferry, fishtailing, flat,
   flit, float, flow, flow on, flowing, fly, foot, front, ghost,
   give no trouble, gliding, glissade, glissando, glossal, glottal,
   glottalization, go by, go easily, go like clockwork, go on,
   gumshoe, guttural, hard, heavy, high, hop, hover, hydroplane,
   ice-skate, intonated, jet, labial, labialization, labiodental,
   labiovelar, landslide, landslip, lapse, laryngeal, last, lateral,
   lax, light, lingual, liquid, low, manner of articulation, mid,
   modification, monophthong, monophthongal, morphophoneme, mouse,
   mute, muted, narrow, nasal, nasalized, navigate, nose dive,
   occlusive, open, oxytone, palatal, palatalized, parasitic vowel,
   pass, pass by, peak, pharyngeal, pharyngealization, pharyngealized,
   phone, phoneme, phonemic, phonetic, phonic, pitch, pitched,
   plosive, plow the deep, posttonic, power dive,
   present no difficulties, press on, proceed, prothetic vowel,
   pull-up, pullout, pushdown, pussyfoot, retroflex, ride,
   ride the sea, roll, roll on, roller-skate, rolling, rounded, run,
   run its course, run on, run out, run smoothly, sail, sailing,
   sailplane, scud, seaplane, segmental phoneme, semivowel, shoot,
   sideslip, skate, skateboard, skating, ski, skid, skiing, skim,
   skulk, sled, sledding, sleigh, slick, slidder, slide, slide down,
   sliding, slink, slip, slippage, slipping, slither, slithering,
   snake, sneak, snowslide, snowslip, soar, soft, sonant, sonority,
   speech sound, spiral, stall, steal, stop, stopped, stream,
   stressed, strong, stunting, subsidence, surd, sweep, sweeping,
   syllabic, syllabic nucleus, syllabic peak, syllable,
   tactical maneuvers, take the air, take wing, tense, thick, throaty,
   toboggan, tobogganing, tonal, tonic, transition sound, triphthong,
   twangy, unaccented, unrounded, unstressed, velar, vocable, vocalic,
   vocoid, voice, voiced, voiced sound, voiceless, voiceless sound,
   voicing, volplane, vowel, vowellike, walk the waters, weak, wide,
   wing, work well, zoom

[7] : U.S. Gazetteer (1990)

glide, or
  zip codes: 97443

[8] : U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000)

glide, or -- u.s. census designated place in oregon
   population 2000:    1690
   housing units 2000: 675
   land area 2000:     10.100760 sq. miles 26.160847 sq. km
   water area 2000:    0.062185 sq. miles 0.161058 sq. km
   total area 2000:    10.162945 sq. miles 26.321905 sq. km
   fips code:            29750
   located within:       oregon or, fips 41
   location:             43.319078 n, 123.066926 w
   zip codes 1990:     97443
   note: some zip codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
   headwords:
    glide, or
    glide

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