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Turn :: Turn (v. i.) To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide..

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

Polycystid :: Polycystid (n.) One of the Polycystidea.

Atlantides :: Atlantides (n. pl.) The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor..

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..

Cotidal :: Cotidal (a.) Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.

Tidde :: Tidde (obs.) imp. of Tide, v. i..

Eagre :: Eagre (n.) A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore..

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

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..

Lammas :: Lammas (n.) The first day of August; -- called also Lammas day, and Lammastide..

Drover :: Drover (n.) A boat driven by the tide.

Swing :: Swing (n.) To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with 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)..

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..

Allhallowtide :: Allhallowtide (n.) The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st..

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

Reciprocation :: Reciprocation (n.) Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides..

Salt :: Salt (n.) Marshes flooded by the tide.

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