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ed. Specif. : A horizontal mark at the water's edge with reference to which the height of tides and floods may be measured.

Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time. Cotidal lines (Phys. Geog.), lines on a map passing through places that have high tide at the same time.

who has given security. -- Counter tally, a tally corresponding to another. -- Counter tide, contrary tide.

Of a deep red color tinged with blue; deep red. "A crimson tide." Mrs. Hemans. The blushing poppy with a crimson hue. Prior.

See Harmotome, and Staurotide.

ipping into the water and driven by the current of a stream or by the ebb and flow of the tide.

One of the Cystidea.

Same as Cystidean.

Same as Cystidea.

, the day of the annual race for the Derby stakes, -- Wednesday of the week before Whitsuntide.

ons; a levee. Dikes that the hands of the farmers had raised . . . Shut out the turbulent tides. Longfellow.

lf. Where light disports in ever mingling dyes. Pope. Childe Harold basked him in the noontide sun, Disporting there like any other fly. Byron.

for the reception of vessels, and provided with gates for keeping in or shutting out the tide.

discharge their waters into the ocean. -- Down the sound, in the direction of the ebbing tide; toward the sea.

nd, mud, or wet grass; to drabble; to trail. Gray. With draggled nets down-hanging to the tide. Trench.

A boat driven by the tide. [Obs.] Spenser.

A wave, or two or three successive waves, of great height and violence, at flood tide moving up an estuary or river; -- commonly called the bore. See Bore.

The reflux or flowing back of the tide; the return of the tidal wave toward the sea; -- opposed to flood; as, the boats will go out on the ebb. Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley.

e of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide.

e establishment. W. Irving. Establishment of the port (Hydrography), a datum on which the tides are computed at the given port, obtained by observation, viz., the interval between the moon's passage over the meridian and the time of high water at the port, on the days of new and full moon.