\Glide\, n. (Zo["o]l.)
The glede or kite.

\Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Gliding}.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG.
gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E.
glad.]
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.
         The river glideth at his own sweet will.
                                               --Wordsworth.
2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.

\Glide\, n.
1. The act or manner of moving smoothly, swiftly, and without
   labor or obstruction.
         They prey at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With
         rapid glide, along the leaning line.  --Thomson.
         Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with
         indented glides did slip away.        --Shak.
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, [sect][sect] 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, [sect][sect] 18,
   97, 191).
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, [sect][sect]
      17, 95.

\Glide\, n. (A["e]ronautics)
Movement of a glider, a["e]roplane, etc., through the air
under gravity or its own movement.

\Glide\, v. i. (A["e]ronautics)
To move through the air by virtue of gravity or momentum; to
volplane.