ebb, ebbe

[Евв, 8.] 1. Low, not deep, shallow. "The water there is otherwise verie low and ebb . "-Holland: Plinie , bk. xxx i., ch. vii. 2. Not deep in the ground, close to the surface. "The roots of the apple-tree, olive, and cypre es lie very ebbe."- Holland : Plinie , bk. xvi., ch. xxx i. *ěbb-ne , s . [Eng. ebb; -ne .) Shallowne . "Their ebbne would never take up his depth."- Ruth erford: Letters , pt. i., ep. 137. ěbb'-Ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [Евв, г.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: 1. Lit .: The reflux or ebb of the tide. "It was here also much discoursed, how the river to some had had its flowings, and what ebbings it has had while others have gone over."- Bunyan : Pilgrim's Prog re , pt. ii. 2. Fig .: A decaying, declining, or wasting away. tide; the reflux of the tide. ebb-tide, s. [Eng. ebb , and tide .] The retiring Ě-běl-i-anş, s. pl . [Named after Ebel, a Pru ian archdeacon, one of the founders.] Ch. Hist .: A revivalist sect which arose in Ko 2. To watch for an opportunity of listening to or nigsberg, Pru ia, about A. D. 1836, the Archdeacon overhearing the conversation of others. eaves-dropper, s. Ebel and Dr. Diestel being its leaders. They believed in spiritual marriage. In 1839 sentence was 1. One who listens under windows in order to pa ed against their leaders, who were charged catch what may be said indoors. IMG:content-0738.png:[blocks in formation] *ē-bap-ti-zā-tion, s. [Lat. e= ex =out, and Eng. baptiz(e); -ation .] A cutting-off from the benefits of baptism. "Trying the metal and temper of its censures by ebaptizations."-Gauden: Tears of the Church , p. 19. ěbb, *ebbe, s . [A. S. ebb a =ebb, ebb an =to ebb; cogn. with Dut. eb , ebbe =ebb, ebben =to ebb; Dan. ebbe; Sw. ebb=ebb, ebb a =to ebb. From the same root as EVEN (q.v.). ( Skeat .)] IMG:content-0739.png:[blocks in formation] with unsound doctrine and impure lives, but it was removed in 1842. Their enemies called the sect Muckers, i . e., in German, Hypocrites. ( Hepworth Dixon , .)