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The season of spring; springtide.

eady; to regain a steady position or state; to move steadily. Without a breeze, without a tide, She steadies with upright keel. Coleridge.

Abounding in streams, or in water. "The streamful tide." Drayton.

; as, a strong current of water or wind; the wind was strong from the northeast; a strong tide.

Performing the office of columns; as, Atlantes and Caryatides are stylagalmaic figures or images. [Written also stylogalmaic.]

of such appearance, whether in fair or cloudy weather; as, to begin work at sunrise. "The tide of sunrise swells." Keble.

Abounding in surges; surgy. "Tossing the surgeful tides." Drayton.

To turn round by action of wind or tide when at anchor; as, a ship swings with the tide.

A temporizer. [Obs.] Why, turn a temporist, row with the tide. Marston.

w or a wren, There 's not a blade of autumn grain, Which the four seasons do not tend And tides of life and increase lend. Emerson.

oting time; -- equivalent to in which time, at which time, when. So wept Duessa until eventide, That shining lamps in Jove's high course were lit. Spenser. Is not this the day That Hermia should give answer of her choice Shak.

Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares. Longfellow. Tidal air (Physiol.), the air which passes in and out of the lungs…

imp. of Tide, v. i. Chaucer.

A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides. J. S. Mill.

ture and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.

To change from ebb to flow, or from flow to ebb; -- said of the tide.

See Twelfthtide.

f certain sounds or letters, without regard to its meaning. Swamped near to drowning in a tide of ingenious vocables. Carlyle.

To let the tide or other water in upon (lowlying land), for the purpose of fertilization, by a deposit of warp, or slimy substance. [Prov. Eng.]

by washing to take away by, or as by, the action of water; to drag or draw off as by the tide; -- often with away, off, out, etc.; as, to wash dirt from the hands. Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins. Acts xxii. 16. The tide will wash you off. Shak.