a. [ Compar. Gladder superl. Gladdest ] [ AS. glæd bright, glad; akin to D. glad smooth, G. glatt, OHG. glat smooth, shining, Icel. glaðr glad, bright, Dan. & Sw. glad glad, Lith. glodas smooth, and prob. to L. glaber, and E. glide. Cf. Glabrous. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Pleased; joyous; happy; cheerful; gratified; -- opposed to sorry, sorrowful, or unhappy; -- said of persons, and often followed by of, at, that, or by the infinitive, and sometimes by with, introducing the cause or reason. [ 1913 Webster ]

A wise son maketh a glad father. Prov. x. 1. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that is glad at calamities shall not be unpunished. Prov. xvii. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

The Trojan, glad with sight of hostile blood. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

He, glad of her attention gained. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

As we are now glad to behold your eyes. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glad am I that your highness is so armed. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glad on 't, glad of it. [ Colloq. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Wearing a gay or bright appearance; expressing or exciting joy; producing gladness; exhilarating. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her conversation
More glad to me than to a miser money is. Sir P. Sidney. [ 1913 Webster ]

Glad evening and glad morn crowned the fourth day. Milton.

Syn. -- Pleased; gratified; exhilarated; animated; delighted; happy; cheerful; joyous; joyful; cheering; exhilarating; pleasing; animating. -- Glad, Delighted, Gratified. Delighted expresses a much higher degree of pleasure than glad. Gratified 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 glad or delighted to see a friend, and gratified at the attention shown by his visits. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be glad; to rejoice. [ Obs. ] Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gladded; p. pr. & vb. n. Gladding. ] [ AS. gladian. See Glad, a., and cf. Gladden, v. t. ] To make glad; to cheer; to gladden; to exhilarate. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

That which gladded all the warrior train. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

Each drinks the juice that glads the heart of man. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To be or become glad; to rejoice. [ 1913 Webster ]

The vast Pacific gladdens with the freight. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Gladdened p. pr. & vb. n. Gladdening ] [ See Glad, v. t. ] To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate. [ 1913 Webster ]

A secret pleasure gladdened all that saw him. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who makes glad. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An iris (Iris foetidissima) with purple flowers and evil-smelling leaves; Southern and Western Europe and North Africa.
Syn. -- gladen, stinking iris, gladdon iris, stinking gladwyn, roast beef plant, Iris foetidissima. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Prob. of Scand. origin, and akin to glad, a.; cf. also W. golead, goleuad, a lighting, illumination, fr. goleu light, clear, bright, goleu fwlch glade, lit., a light or clear defile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. An open passage through a wood; a grassy open or cleared space in a forest. [ 1913 Webster ]

There interspersed in lawns and opening glades. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An everglade. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. An opening in the ice of rivers or lakes, or a place left unfrozen; also, smooth ice. [ Local, U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Bottom glade. See under Bottom. --
Glade net, in England, a net used for catching woodcock and other birds in forest glades. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. glædene, cf. L. gladius a sword. Cf. Gladiole. ] (Bot.) Sword grass; any plant with sword-shaped leaves, especially the European Iris fœtidissima. [ Written also gladwyn, gladdon, and glader. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European yellow-hammer. [ 1913 Webster ]