Glida

Old English Dictionary Entry

Glida

Old English Dictionary Entry

Part of speech: an; Related words:

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1 glida

m. A kite, glede :-- Glida milvus, Ælfc. Gl. 38; Som. 63, 29; Wrt. Voc. 29, 48: 77, 14. Se ðe þurh reáflác gewilnaþ ða þing ðe he mid his eágum wiðútan sceáwaþ se is glida ná culfre he who by rapine desires the things that he sees with his eyes without, he is a kite, not a dove, Homl. Th. i. 586, 6: Exon. 106 b; Th. 406, 23; Rä. 25, 5. [Icel. gleða.] glida

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ᚷᛚᛁᛞᚪ

Possible runic inscription in Anglo-Saxon futhorc

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