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n 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.

The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to flood tide.

Containing blebs, or characterized by blebs; as, blebby glass.

Abounding in cobwebs. "The cobwebbed cottage." Young.

Abounding in cobwebs, or any fine web; resembling a cobweb.

Coagulated sour milk diluted with water; -- a common beverage among the Arabs. Also, a fermented liquor made of the same.

oundish stone or bowlder; especially, a stone worn and rounded by the action of water; a pebblestone. "The pebbles on the hungry beach." Shak. As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton.

Abounding in pebbles. Thomson.

A pebble; also, pebbles collectively. "Chains of pebblestone." Marlowe.

Full of pebbles; pebbled. "A hard, pebbly bottom." Johnson.

Having the toes united by a membrane, or web; as, the webbed feet of aquatic fowls.

One who forms webs; a weaver; a webster. [Obs.]

A woven band of cotton or flax, used for reins, girths, bed bottoms, etc.

f or pertaining to a web or webs; like a web; filled or covered with webs. Bats on their webby wings in darkness move. Crabbe.

by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other. Rage, shame, and grief alternate in his breast. J. Philips. Different species alternating with each other. Kirwan.

A Linnæan order of aquatic birds swimming by means of webbed feet, as the duck, or of lobed feet, as the grebe. In this order were included the geese, ducks, auks, divers, gulls, petrels, etc.

overed with, or composed of, soft, loose hairs or fibers, so as to resemble a cobweb; cobwebby.

To soil; to stain. [Obs. or Poet.] Beau. & Fl. Ne'er assoil my cobwebbed shield. Wordsworth.

See Algorism. [Obs.] Chaucer. Augrim stones, pebbles formerly used in numeration. -- Noumbres of Augrim, Arabic numerals. Chaucer.

Pebbles, collectively; shingle.