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

d-shaped leaves, esp. the European Iris foetidissima. [Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader.]

The European yellow-hammer.

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

The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water. [Poetic]

l; lowest; under; as, bottom rock; the bottom board of a wagon box; bottom prices. Bottom glade, a low glade or open place; a valley; a dale. Milton. -Bottom grass, grass growing on bottom lands. -- Bottom land. See 1st Bottom, n., 7.

rm, the edge of. [R.] Tending my flocks hard by i' the hilly crofts That brow this bottom glade. Milton.

house embosomed in the grove. Pope. Some tender flower . . . . Embosomed in the greenest glade. Keble.

to encircle; to hem in; to be round about; to involve or envelop. Dwelling in a pleasant glade, With mountains round about environed. Spenser. Environed he was with many foes. Shak. Environ me with darkness whilst I write. Donne.

Horse fly. (b) A fly of the genus Hippobosca, esp. H. equina. See Horse tick. -- Forest glade, a grassy space in a forest. Thomson. -- Forest laws, laws for the protection of game, preservation of timber, etc., in forests. -- Forest tree, a tree of the forest, especially a timber tree, as distinguished from a fruit…

See Gladen.

s). This name is also sometimes applied to the buzzard. [Written also glead, gled, gleed, glade, and glide.]

ntervals; as, to intersperse pictures in a book. There, interspersed in lawns and op'ning glades, Thin trees arise that shun each other's shades. Pope.

A plain sprinkled with trees or underbrush; a glade. [Obs.] In a laund upon an hill of flowers. Chaucer. Through this laund anon the deer will come. Shak.

The gladen, and other species of Iris. Prior.

, fencing; a combat or trial of skill with swords; swordplay. -- Sword grass. (Bot.) See Gladen. -- Sword knot, a ribbon tied to the hilt of a sword. -- Sword law, government by the sword, or by force; violence. Milton. -- Sword lily. (Bot.) See Gladiolus. -- Sword mat (Naut.), a mat closely woven of yarns; -- so…

rust to, to rush upon. [Obs.] As doth an eager hound Thrust to an hind within some covert glade. Spenser.

s, a tuft of plants. Under a tuft of shade. Milton. Green lake, and cedar fuft, and spicy glade. Keble.

ertaining to the woods, especially in shooting, and other sports in the woods. Men of the glade and forest! leave Your woodcraft for the field of fight. Bryant.