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Glede, Gleid, n. Also: gleyd. [ME. gleede, glede, OE. gléd.] A live coal, an ember.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxii. 500.
Decius and Valeryane … lewit the cors apone the gledis 1513 Doug. ii. x. 123.
Tho beheld I … Fayr Ilion all fall in gledis down 1513 Ib. iii. viii. 130; etc.
With gledis sparkand as the hail als thik(b) a1500 Henr. Fab. 389.
Thy awin fyre … , sa it be bot ane gleid, It warmis weill c1500-c1512 Dunb. Tua Mar. W. 108.
As a glemand gleyd glowis my chaftis 1513 Doug. iv. ii. 35.
Onhappy Dido … In this meyn sesson byrnyng hait as gleyd 1513 Ib. vii. v. 90.
A gleid of fyre, or hait brand lycht byrnyng 1535 Stewart 9745.
Thair weirlie weid, Glemand as gold and glitterand as ane gleid 1535 Ib. 22122.
Tha fled als fast as spark gois out of gleid 15.. Clariodus iii. 1553.
His eine thay brint and flamit as ane gleid c 1570 Satirical Poems xxxvii. 20.
As … forcit fyris with gritter gleidis out glemisfig. 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 2680.
Belgebubis barne, infernall byrnand gleid c1590 J. Stewart 50/70.
That fyre heirof … him vpkendlit in ane glowing gleid

b. In a glede, to an ember, completely. a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxiii. 682.
Thane come a fyre but delay & brynt the temple in a glede c1475 Acts of Schir William Wallace iv. 751.
I haiff seruit to be brynt in a gleid c1475 Ib. viii. 515.
All Duram toun thai brynt wp in a gleid 1560 Rolland Seven Sages 6410.
Thy ers brint in ane gleid, I think to se sum day a1570-86 Maitland Maitland Folio MS ci. 41.
Sum hes thair place brunt in ane gleid