Definition of tide

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Tide (prep.) The period of twelve hours.

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Eventide :: Eventide (n.) The time of evening; evening.
Ebb :: Ebb (v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The time after harvest when the common fields are open to all kinds of stock.
Swing :: Swing (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide..
Cotidal :: Cotidal (a.) Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
Passiontide :: Passiontide (n.) The last fortnight of Lent.
Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..
Pentecostal :: Pentecostal (a.) Of or pertaining to Pentecost or to Whitsuntide.
Ebb Tide :: Ebb tide () The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.
Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide..
Undertide :: Undertide (n.) Alt. of Undertim.
Agnomen :: Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) Open time; -- applied to different thing.
Neaped :: Neaped (a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped..
Tide :: Tide (prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied
Salt :: Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.
Tidesman :: Tidesman (n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
Dock :: Dock (n.) An artificial basin or an inclosure in connection with a harbor or river, -- used for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide..
Oftentide :: Oftentide (adv.) Frequently; often.
Pinkster :: Pinkster (n.) Whitsuntide.
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