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Said of the lowest or stillest state of the tide, as dead low water, dead neap: cf. A. 31.
Said of the lowest or stillest state of the tide, as dead low water, dead neap: cf. A. 31.
The stillest state of the tide, when the rise and fall are at a minimum; the neap tide. (Cf. dead, adj. 27.)