tide table (tidta bl)

A table showing the time of high water at any place, or at different places, for each day throughout the year. tidewaiter (tid'water), n. One of a cla of custom-house officers whose busine it is to await the arrival of ships, and to see that while in port the customs regulations as to the land ing and shipping of goods are observed, and the revenue laws are not violated. If he mi es a pair of colours, or a tide - waiter's place, he has no remedy but the highway. Swift , Advice to Servants (Waiting-Maid). The father of the Custom-House - the patriarch not only of this little squad of officials, but, I am bold to say, of the respectable body of tide - waiters all over the United States was a certain permanent Inspector. Hawthorne , Scarlet Letter, Int., p. 17. tide-water (tid'water), n. Water affected by the ordinary ebb and flow of the tide.-Tidewater region, the low plain of eastern Virginia, extending from the Atlantic coast westward about 100 miles. tide-wave (tid'wav), n. A tidal wave (which see, under tidal ). Than Troilus full tite, & tidé Eneas, Chefyn to Achilles with choise men ynogh. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 7410. Thanne worth Trewe-tonge, a tidy man that tened me Piers Plowman (B), iii. 320. neuere. 3. Appropriate or suitable as regards order, arrangement, occasion, circumstances, or the like; becomingly or neatly arrayed or arranged; kept in good order; neat; trim: as, a tidy dre ; a tidy and well-furnished apartment. To see it all so tidy , not even a pair of boots thrown about, or a tie flung on the table, made their hearts die within them. Mrs. Oliphant , Poor Gentleman, xxxvii. 4. Of neat and orderly habits; disposed to be neat and orderly: as, a tidy person.-5. Moderately or fairly large, great, or important; considerable; respectable; pretty: as, a tidy sum of money. [Obsolete or colloq.] Al that touched ther to a tid i erldome, To the kowherd & his wif the king zaf that time. William of Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5384. May be after a tidy day's work I shall come home with 18. in my pocket. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, L. 408. tidyl (ti'di), v.; pret. and pp. tidied, ppr. tidy ing. [ She found the widow with her house-place tidied up after the midday meal, and busy knitting at the open door. Mrs. Gaskell , Sylvia's Lovers, xliii. II. in trans . To arrange, dispose, or put things, as dre , furniture, etc., in good or proper order: often with up . [Colloq.] I have tidied and tidied over and over again, but it's usele . Ma and Africa, together, upset the whole house. Dickens, Bleak House, xxx. tidy2 (tī'di), n.; pl. tidies (-diz). [Early mod. E. also tydie ; also dial. tiddy , q. v.; tid if , tydif , tidife ; origin unknown: see tid if . Cf. tiddy (and tidley ); the termination is appar. OF.] A small singing bird, perhaps the wren. Tho that hadde doon unkyndene e - As doth the tydif , for new-fangelne e. Chaucer , Good Women, 1. 154. And of those chaunting fowls, the Goldfinch not behind, That hath so many sorts descending from her kind, The Tydie for her notes as delicate as they. Drayton, Polyolbion, xiii. 79.