Tide

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( prep.) Tendency or direction of causes, influences, or events; course; current.

(2): ( prep.) Violent confluence.

(3): ( prep.) Time; period; season.

(4): ( prep.) The alternate rising and falling of the waters of the ocean, and of bays, rivers, etc., connected therewith. The tide ebbs and flows twice in each lunar day, or the space of a little more than twenty-four hours. It is occasioned by the attraction of the sun and moon (the influence of the latter being three times that of the former), acting unequally on the waters in different parts of the earth, thus disturbing their equilibrium. A high tide upon one side of the earth is accompanied by a high tide upon the opposite side. Hence, when the sun and moon are in conjunction or opposition, as at new moon and full moon, their action is such as to produce a greater than the usual tide, called the spring tide, as represented in the cut. When the moon is in the first or third quarter, the sun's attraction in part counteracts the effect of the moon's attraction, thus producing under the moon a smaller tide than usual, called the neap tide.

(5): ( prep.) A stream; current; flood; as, a tide of blood.

(6): ( n.) To work into or out of a river or harbor by drifting with the tide and anchoring when it becomes adverse.

(7): ( n.) To betide; to happen.

(8): ( n.) To pour a tide or flood.

(9): ( prep.) The period of twelve hours.

(10): ( v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

King James Dictionary

Tide, n.

1. Time season.

Which, at the appointed tide,

Each one did make his bride.

This sense is obsolete.

2. The flow of the water in the ocean and seas, twice in a little more than twenty four hours the flux and reflux, or ebb and flow. We commonly distinguish the flow or rising of the water by the name of flood-tide, and the reflux by that of ebb-tide. There is much less tide or rise of water in the main ocean, at a distance from land, than there is at the shore, and in sounds and bays. 3. Stream course current as the tide of the times.

Time's ungentle tide.

4. Favorable course.

There is a tide in the affairs of men,

Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.

5. Violent confluence. Not in use. 6. Among miners, the period of twelve hours. 7. Current flow of blood.

And life's red tide runs ebbing from the wound.

Tide, To drive with the stream.

Tide, To work in or out of a river or harbor by favor of the tide, and anchor when it becomes adverse.