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Ebb :: Ebb (v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow..

Turn :: Turn (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide..

Wash :: Wash (v. t.) To remove by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands..

Ebb :: Ebb (n.) The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb..

Roust :: Roust (n.) A strong tide or current, especially in a narrow channel..

Warp :: Warp (v.) A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed..

Cross-stone :: Cross-stone (n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide..

Warp :: Warp (v. t.) To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance..

Recess :: Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..

Undertide :: Undertide (n.) Alt. of Undertim.

Mercaptide :: Mercaptide (n.) A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK..

Monocystic :: Monocystic (a.) Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac..

Neap :: Neap (n.) A neap tide.

Tide :: Tide (prep.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current..

Go-out :: Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out..

Race :: Race (n.) A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney..

Tidology :: Tidology (n.) A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.

Set :: Set (v. i.) To have a certain direction in motion; to flow; to move on; to tend; as, the current sets to the north; the tide sets to the windward..

Betide :: Betide (v. t.) To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer..

Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours..

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