glode

Verb

glide (third-person singular simple present glides, present participle gliding, simple past glided or glid or (archaic) glode, past participle glided or glid or (archaic) glode or glidden)

1. (intransitive) To move softly, smoothly, or effortlessly.
   • The river glideth at his own sweet will:1807, William Wordsworth, “Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 (Sonnet 14)”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume I, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   coast, slide

2. (intransitive) To fly unpowered, as of an aircraft. Also relates to gliding birds and flying fish.
   • The tide was out, and we drew up amid the strong bracing smell of seaweed, with gulls screeching, wheeling around, and gliding on the wind.1947 January and February, O. S. Nock, “"The Aberdonian" in Wartime”, in Railway Magazine, page 8
3. (transitive) To cause to glide.
4. To pass with a glide, as the voice.

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