Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Any of several birds of prey, especially a European kite (Milvus milvus).

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The common kite of Europe, Milvus ictinus or M. regalis:
  • noun An obsolete spelling of gleed.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

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

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  • noun A live coal, an ember.
  • noun Any of several birds of prey, especially a kite, Milvus milvus.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English, from Old English glida; see ghel- in Indo-European roots.]

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From Old English glēd.

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From Old English glida, akin to Icelandic gleetha/gleea, Swedish glada. Compare glide.

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  • 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

  • (n.) A burning coal or cinder.

    August 28, 2009

  • a bird and an ember.....a pre-phoenix???

    February 8, 2013