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Webster 1913 Edition

Glede

Glede

(glēd)
,
Noun.
[AS.
glida
, akin to Icel.
gleða
, Sw.
glada
. Cf.
Glide
,
Verb.
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
.]

Glede

,
Noun.
[See
Gleed
.]
A live coal.
[Archaic]
The cruel ire, red as any
glede
.
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Glede

GLEDE

,
Noun.
A fowl of the rapacious kind, the kite, a species of Falco. The word is used in Deut.14.13. but the same Hebrew word, Lev.11.14. is rendered a vulture.

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