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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Isatide :: Isatide (n.) A white crystalline substance obtained by the partial reduction of isatin.
Ebb Tide :: Ebb tide () The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.
Allhallowtide :: Allhallowtide (n.) The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st..
Roadster :: Roadster (n.) A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
Wintertide :: Wintertide (n.) Winter time.
Morningtide :: Morningtide (n.) Morning time.
Worth :: Worth (v. i.) To be; to become; to betide; -- now used only in the phrases, woe worth the day, woe worth the man, etc., in which the verb is in the imperative, and the nouns day, man, etc., are in the dative. Woe be to the day, woe be to the man, etc., are equivalent phrases..
Springy :: Springtime (n.) The season of spring; springtide.
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..
Tide :: Tide (prep.) The period of twelve hours.
Limpet :: Limpet (n.) Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides..
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)..
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..
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..
Neap :: Neap (n.) A neap tide.
Betide :: Betide (v. t.) To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer..
Agnomen :: Agnomen (n.) An additional name, or an epithet appended to a name; as, Aristides the Just..
Wear :: Wear (n.) A fence of stakes, brushwood, or the like, set in a stream, tideway, or inlet of the sea, for taking fish..
Lactide :: Lactide (n.) A white, crystalline substance, obtained from also, by extension, any similar substance..
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