Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Glide \Glide\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glided}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Gliding}.] [AS. gl[=i]dan; akin to D. glijden, OHG.
   gl[=i]tan, G. gleiten, Sw. glida, Dan. glide, and prob. to E.
   glad.]
   1. To move gently and smoothly; to pass along without noise,
      violence, or apparent effort; to pass rapidly and easily,
      or with a smooth, silent motion, as a river in its
      channel, a bird in the air, a skater over ice.

            The river glideth at his own sweet will.
                                                  --Wordsworth.

   2. (Phon.) To pass with a glide, as the voice.