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To unlade. [Obs.] Heywood.

A bridle check; a jerk of one rein, given to a horse when he refuses to turn.

A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line. [R.]

A furious attack made by troops on a fortified place, in which ladders are used to pass a ditch or mount a rampart. Sin enters, not by escalade, but by cunning or treachery. Buckminster.

and interspersed with hummocks, or small islands, and patches of high grass; as, the everglades of Florida. [U. S.]

A simultaneous discharge of firearms.

A baboon (Gelada Ruppelli) of Abyssinia, remarkable for the length of the hair on the neck and shoulders of the adult male.

infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason. A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1. He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Prov. xvii. 5. The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood. Dryden. He, glad of her attention gained. Milton. As we are now glad to behold your eyes.…

To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate. A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him. Addison.

One who makes glad. Chaucer.

ood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope.

; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. [Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader.]

The European yellow-hammer.

Full of gladness; joyful; glad. [R.] -- Glad"ful*ness, n. [R.] Spenser. It followed him with gladful glee. Spenser.

Sword-shaped; resembling a sword in form, as the leaf of the iris, or of the gladiolus.

Originally, a swordplayer; hence, one who fought with weapons in public, either on the occasion of a funeral ceremony, or in the arena, for public amusement.

Of or pertaining to gladiators, or to contests or combatants in general.

The art or practice of a gladiator.

Conduct, state, or art, of a gladiator.

Gladiatorial. [R.]