springtide (spring tid)

[= D. spring - tij, spring-tide, G. spring - zeit, high tide, Sw. Dan. spring - tid, spring-tide; as spring, v., rise, + tide.] 1. The tide which occurs at or soon after the new and full moon, and rises higher than common tides, the ebb sinking correspondingly lower. At these times the sun and moon are in a straight line with the earth, and their combined influence in raising the waters of the ocean is the greatest. consequently the tides thus produced are the highest. See IMG:content-1857.png:[blocks in formation] Yet are they doubly replenished by the first and latter spring-tides of devotion. Sandys , Travailes, p. 160. springtide (spring'tid), n. [ spring , n., 3, + tide .] Springtime. Sounds as of the springtide they, While the chill months long for May. D. G. Ro etti, Love's Nocturn. springtime (spring'tīm), n. Spring. Primrose, first-born child of Ver, Merry spring - time's harbinger. Fletcher (and another ), Two Noble Kinsmen, i. 1. spring-tool (spring'töl), n . A light tongs closing by a spring, used by gla -blowers. spring-trap (spring'trap), n. 1. A trap working by a spring, which may cause a door or bar to fall when the detent is released by the moving of the bait, or may throttle the victim, as in an ordinary form of mouse-trap, etc.-2. A form of steam-trap. E. H. Knight.