Part 4818

<blockquote>As we are now <b>glad</b> to behold your eyes. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Glad</b> am I that your highness is so armed. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Glad on 't</col>, <cd>glad of it. <mark>[Colloq.]</mark></cd> <i>Shak.</i></cs>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating.</def>

<blockquote>Her conversation More <b>glad</b> to me than to a miser money is. <i>Sir P. Sidney.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote><b>Glad</b> evening and <b>glad</b> morn crowned the fourth day. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Pleased; gratified; exhilarated; animated; delighted; happy; cheerful; joyous; joyful; cheering; exhilarating; pleasing; animating.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Glad</er>, <er>Delighted</er>, <er>Gratified</er>. <i>Delighted</i> expresses a much higher degree of pleasure than <i>glad</i>. <i>Gratified</i> always refers to a pleasure conferred by some human agent, and the feeling is modified by the consideration that we owe it in part to another. A person may be <i>glad</i> or <i>delighted</i> to see a friend, and <i>gratified</i> at the attention shown by his visits.</usage>

<h1>Glad</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glad</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gladded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gladding</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[AS. <ets>gladian</ets>. See <er>Glad</er>, <tt>a.</tt>, and cf. <er>Gladden</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<blockquote>That which <b>gladded</b> all the warrior train. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Each drinks the juice that <b>glads</b> the heart of man. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Glad</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glad</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be glad; to rejoice.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Massinger.</i>

<h1>Gladden</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glad"den</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Gladdened</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Gladdening</er> <tt>(?)</tt>.]</wordforms> <ety>[See <er>Glad</er>, <tt>v. t.</tt>]</ety> <def>To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.</def>

<blockquote>A secret pleasure <b>gladdened</b> all that saw him. <i>Addison.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gladden</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glad"den</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be or become glad; to rejoice.</def>

<blockquote>The vast Pacific <b>gladdens</b> with the freight. <i>Wordsworth.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Gladder</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glad"der</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who makes glad.</def>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Glade</h1> <Xpage=628>

<hw>Glade</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to <ets>glad</ets>, a.; cf. also W. <ets>golead</ets>, <ets>goleuad</ets>, a lighting, illumination, fr. <ets>goleu</ets> light, clear, bright, <ets>goleu fwlch</ets> glade, lit., a light or clear defile.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest.</def>

<blockquote>There interspersed in lawns and opening <b>glades</b>. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>