Tide

tīd, n. time: season: the regular flux and reflux or rhythmic ebb and flow of the sea: course: a tide, time, or season, a feast-day, festival, a certain time, a day of twelve hours: commotion: turning-point.— v.t. to drive with the stream.— v.i. to pour a tide or flood: to work in or out of a river or harbour with the tide.— adj. Tī′dal , pertaining to tides: flowing and ebbing periodically.— ns. Tide′-gate , a gate through which the water flows into a basin or dock with the tide, and which is shut to keep it from flowing out again when the tide ebbs: a place where the tide runs with great velocity; Tide′-gauge , an instrument for registering the state of the tide continuously.— adj. Tide′le , having no tides.— ns. Tide′-lock , a lock placed between an entrance-basin and a harbour, canal, or river, and furnished with double gates, so that ve els can pa either out or in at all times of the tide; Tide′mill , a mill moved by tide-water: a mill for clearing lands of tide-water; Tides′-man , Tide′-wait′er , an officer who waits the arrival of ve els, to secure the payment of the duties: one who watches public opinion before declaring his own; Tide′-tā′ble , a table giving the time of high-tide at any place; Tide′-wa′ter , the water of the portion of a river affected by the tide, the seaboard; Tide′-wave , the great wave which follows the apparent motion of the moon; Tide′-way , the channel in which the tide sets; Neap′-tide (see Neap); Spring′-tide (see Spring ).— Tide over , to surmount difficulties, for the time at least, by favourable accidents or by skill. [A.S. tíd ; Dut. tijd , Ger. zeit .]