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Ebb Tide :: Ebb tide () The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

Whitsun :: Whitsun (a.) Of, pertaining to, or observed at, Whitsuntide; as, Whitsun week; Whitsun Tuesday; Whitsun pastorals..

Tided :: Tided (a.) Affected by the tide; having a tide.

Christmastide :: Christmastide (n.) The season of Christmas.

Whitsuntide :: Whitsuntide (n.) The week commencing with Whitsunday, esp. the first three days -- Whitsunday, Whitsun Monday, and Whitsun Tuesday; the time of Pentecost..

Atlantes :: Atlantes (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides..

Sand :: Sand (n.) Tracts of land consisting of sand, like the deserts of Arabia and Africa; also, extensive tracts of sand exposed by the ebb of the tide..

Cystid :: Cystid (n.) One of the Cystidea.

Pitching :: Pitching (n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.

Hockday :: Hockday (n.) A holiday commemorating the expulsion of the Danes, formerly observed on the second Tuesday after Easter; -- called also hocktide..

Lententide :: Lententide (n.) The season of Lenten or Lent.

Wind-rode :: Wind-rode (a.) Caused to ride or drive by the wind in opposition to the course of the tide; -- said of a vessel lying at anchor, with wind and tide opposed to each other..

Limpet :: Limpet (n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides..

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

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

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

Caryatides :: Caryatides (n. pl.) Caryatids.

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

Littorina :: Littorina (n.) A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle..

Flux :: Flux (n.) The setting in of the tide toward the shore, -- the ebb being called the reflux..

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