Definition of tide

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Tide (n.) To betide; to happen.

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Roadster :: Roadster (n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
Go-out :: Go-out (n.) A sluice in embankments against the sea, for letting out the land waters, when the tide is out..
Turn :: Turn (n.) Change of direction, course, or tendency; different order, position, or aspect of affairs; alteration; vicissitude; as, the turn of the tide..
Ebb :: Ebb (v. i.) To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; -- opposed to flow..
Agnomen :: Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just..
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
Springtime :: Springtide (n.) The time of spring; springtime.
Recess :: Recess (n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides..
Opetide :: Opetide (n.) The early spring, or the time when flowers begin opening..
Pinkster :: Pinkster (n.) Whitsuntide.
Twelfth-day :: Twelfth-day (n.) See Twelfthtide.
Flat :: Flat (n.) A level tract lying at little depth below the surface of water, or alternately covered and left bare by the tide; a shoal; a shallow; a strand..
Jetty :: "Jetty (n.) A structure of wood or stone extended into the sea to influence the current or tide, or to protect a harbor; a mole; as, the Eads system of jetties at the mouth of the Mississippi River..
Pitching :: Pitching (n.) A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
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..
Gabbro :: Gabbro (n.) A name originally given by the Italians to a kind of serpentine, later to the rock called euphotide, and now generally used for a coarsely crystalline, igneous rock consisting of lamellar pyroxene (diallage) and labradorite, with sometimes chrysolite (olivine gabbro)..
Tide :: Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.
Flow :: Flow (v. i.) To rise, as the tide; -- opposed to ebb; as, the tide flows twice in twenty-four hours..
Time-table :: Time-table (n.) A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc..
Lammas :: Lammas (n.) The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide..
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