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n.
A strong or rapid current of water, or the channel or passage for such a current; a powerful current or heavy sea, sometimes produced by the meeting of two tides; as, the Portland Race; the Race of Alderney.
n.
Alternate recurrence or action; as, the reciprocation of the sea in the flow and ebb of tides.
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A body of water made rough by the meeting of opposing tides or currents.
v. i.
To happen, succeed, or act by turns; to follow reciprocally in place or time; -- followed by with; as, the flood and ebb tides alternate with each other.
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A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
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Marking an equality in the tides; having high tide at the same time.
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Of or pertaining to tides; caused by tides; having tides; periodically rising and falling, or following and ebbing; as, tidal waters.
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A customhouse officer who goes on board of a merchant ship to secure payment of the duties; a tidewaiter.
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A slimy substance deposited on land by tides, etc., by which a rich alluvial soil is formed.
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A genus of small pectinibranch mollusks, having thick spiral shells, abundant between tides on nearly all rocky seacoasts. They feed on seaweeds. The common periwinkle is a well-known example. See Periwinkle.
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Any one of many species of marine shellfish of the order Docoglossa, mostly found adhering to rocks, between tides.
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A flowing back, as the return of a fluid; ebb; reaction; as, the flux and reflux of the tides.
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A discourse or treatise upon the tides; that part of science which treats of tides.
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Connected with the apogee; as, apogean (neap) tides, which occur when the moon has passed her apogee.
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A facing of stone laid upon a bank to prevent wear by tides or currents.
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Any species of Siphonaria, a genus of limpet-shaped Pulmonifera, living between tides, on rocks.
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A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.
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A clumsy vessel that works its way from one anchorage to another by means of the tides.
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