Definition of tide

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Tide (n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

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Glottidean :: Glottidean (a.) Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal.
Tidesman :: Tidesman (n.) A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
Awash :: Awash (a.) Washed by the waves or tide; -- said of a rock or strip of shore, or (Naut.) of an anchor, etc., when flush with the surface of the water, so that the waves break over it..
Atlantides :: Atlantides (n. pl.) The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas..
Backwater :: Backwater (n.) Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar..
Stave :: Staurotide (n.) Staurolite.
Atlantes :: Atlantes (n. pl.) Figures or half figures of men, used as columns to support an entablature; -- called also telamones. See Caryatides..
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..
Cotidal :: Cotidal (a.) Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
Bartholomew Tide :: Bartholomew tide () Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th..
Tide-rode :: Tide-rode (a.) Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.
Polycystid :: Polycystid (a.) Pertaining to the Polycystidea, or the Polycystina..
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..
Inrush :: Inrush (n.) A rush inwards; as, the inrush of the tide..
Wintertide :: Wintertide (n.) Winter time.
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..
Cross-stone :: Cross-stone (n.) See Harmotome, and Staurotide..
Roadster :: Roadster (n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
Limpet :: Limpet (n.) Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks..
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..
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