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Time; period; season. [Obsoles.] "This lusty summer's tide." Chaucer. And rest their weary limbs a tide. Spenser. Which, at the appointed tide, Each one did make his bride. Spenser. At the tide of Christ his birth. Fuller.

Swung by the tide when at anchor; -- opposed to wind-rode.

Affected by the tide; having a tide. "The tided Thames." Bp. Hall.

Land that is overflowed by tide water; hence, land near the sea.

Having no tide.

stomhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.

A customhouse officer who watches the landing of goods from merchant vessels, in order to secure payment of duties. Swift.

Channel in which the tide sets.

The time at or near All Saints, or November 1st.

The Pleiades or seven stars, fabled to have been the daughters of Atlas.

Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th. Shak.

To happen to; to befall; to come to ; as, woe betide the wanderer. What will betide the few Milton.

A small, clear space in the segments of the ovum, the precursor of the nucleus.

Caryatids.

The season of Christmas.

An order of Crinoidea, mostly fossils of the Paleozoic rocks. They were usually roundish or egg-shaped, and often unsymmetrical; some were sessile, others had short stems.

One of the Cystidea.

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

Same as Epiglottic.

A rock occurring in the Alps, consisting of saussurite and smaragdite; -- sometimes called gabbro.