tiden.
/tʌɪd/, U.S. /taɪd/ I. Time.† 1. A portion, extent, or space of time; an age, a season, a time, a while: = time n. 1 – 5. Obsolete (or ? dialect)† 2. spec. = hour n. 1. Obsolete.† 4. † 5. Each of the seven canonical hours; also, the services recited at these; = hour n. 5. Obsolete.
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the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time
tidea900
while971
fristOE
stemOE
throwOE
timeOE
selea1250
piecec1300
termc1300
stagea1325
whilesc1330
space?a1400
racec1400
spacec1405
termine1420
parodya1425
timea1425
continuancec1440
thrallc1450
espace1483
space of timec1500
tracta1513
stead1596
reach1654
amidst1664
stretch1698
spell1728
track1835
lifetime1875
time slice1938
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) v. xiii. [xii.] 432 Þa ic sume tid fram ðe gewat.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. Mark ix. 21 Huu miceles vel longes tides.
971 Blickl. Hom. 125 Uncuþ bið æghwylcum anum men his lifes tid.
OE Beowulf 147 Wæs seo hwil micel; twelf wintra tid torn geþolode.
c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) ix. 21 Hu lang tid is syððan him þis gebyrede?
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 312 Þreo tida sind on ðysre worulde: an is seo ðe wæs butan æ;..seo ðridde is nu æfter Cristes to-cyme. [Cf. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 89.]
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 391 Bath ware made sun and mon,..In takening o tides to stand, dais and yeirs.
c1412 T. Hoccleve De Regimine Principum 847 I mote..suffre storm after þe mery tyde.
c1450 Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.) v. 50 I come aȝen withinne a tyde.
a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in Poet Wks. (1843) I. 131 Stop a tyd, and be welle ware.
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1974 And þou tary in þis towne, or any tide lenge.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B7 There they alight..And rest their weary limbs a tide.
1603 Philotus lxxvii. sig. C4v Thairfoir ȝe sall gang and prouyde, Ane Pages claithis in the meine tyde.
1791 J. Learmont Poems Pastoral 331 I wiss that tide had been a lang lang year.
1871 P. H. Waddell Psalms frae Hebrew xxxi. 15 My tides are a' i' yer han'.
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the world > time > period > hour > [noun]
tidea900
hourc1250
timea1325
hourglass1588
planetary hour1593
clock hour1600
ghurry1638
stricken hour1820
lunar hour1862
a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 879 Þy ilcan geare aþiestrode sio sunne ane tid dæges.
a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 30 June 110 Þonne se monoð byð geendod þe we nemnað se ærra lyða, þonne byð seo niht six tyda lang ond se dæg eahtatyne tyda lang.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 388 An wæcce hæfd þreo tida; feower wæccan gefyllað twelf tida.
c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 298 Ðæt ger byð gesett on þrim hund dagum & fif & syxtigum dagum & syx tidum.
a1200 Moral Ode (Lamb. MS.) 137 Hefde he bon þer enne dei oðer twa bare tide nolde he for al middenerd þe þerdde þer abiden.
c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 408/223 Huy stoden and bi-heolden sein Iohan longue, þre tidene and more.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14193 Ten tides [Fairf. oures] has þe dai and tua.
c1430 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. BB. 3 Þe foure & twenti tydes [v.r. houres] in day & in þe nyȝt..he dyȝte folwel & riȝt Mid þreo grete kandlen To berne eite tides [v.r. houres].
3. † c. Appointed or fixed time: = time n. 16. Obsolete.
a. A point in the duration of the day, month, or year, of human life, or of other natural (or, later, artificial) period; in reference to an action or repetition = occasion: = time n. 14, 15 archaic or poetic.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun]
sitheeOE
tidec897
timeeOE
mealeOE
whilec950
throwOE
charec1000
stevenOE
timeOE
seasona1300
tempest1382
world1389
occasionc1425
tidement1575
period1602
minute1607
hinta1670
epoch1728
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xvii. 120 Ðonne cymð his hlaford..on ða tiid ðæt he hiene ær nat.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xlvii. 356 A worpen mon bið a unnyt..& on ælce tid saweð wrohte.
971 Blickl. Hom. 21 Þæt leoht on nanre tide ne ablinneþ.
c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 7447 Hit ilomp an are tide [c1300 Otho in one time] heo nom hire to ræde.
c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Thisbe. 783 Ffor to mete in on place at on tyde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 5733 Þe flok he fedd opon a tid, Bi a wildrin wod side.
a1400 Pistill of Susan 149 Such toret and teone takeþ me þis tyde.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 5874 To stonde lete ȝe hem not bide As ȝe han done mony a tyde.
a1529 J. Skelton Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng in Certayne Bks. (?1545) 155 Such a lewde sorte To Elynour resorte From tyde to tyde.
c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme cxliii. 42 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 241 My clossett where I wont to hide, In troublous tyde.
a1605 Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 470 At that tyd [ane after midnight] was na time for trumpers to tarie.
1635 R. Johnson Hist. Tom a Lincolne (1828) 106 Which ship had beene seven yeares upon the sea..and before this tyde could never see land.
1805 W. Wordsworth Elegiac Verses on J. Wordsworth vi But we will see it—joyful tide! Some day..The mountain will we cross.
1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise 182 He, who, from ill death Saved me that tide.
b. A suitable, favourable, or proper time or occasion; opportune, fit, or due time; season; opportunity: = time n. 17 archaic. Cf. tid n.1
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the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > [noun]
tidec888
timeeOE
whilec950
seleOE
seasona1300
tidefulnessa1340
spacea1382
placec1384
pudding time1546
c888 Ælfred tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. xxix. §2 Se ðe his ær tide ne tiolað, þonne bið his on tid untilad.
c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxviii. 274 Hwilum sie spræce tiid, hwilum swiggean.
c950 Lindisf. G. Matt. xxiv. 45 Þætte he sella him mett in tid.
c1060 Charter of Eadweard in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 212 Alle þingen ða ðar upaspringeð, inne tyd and ut of tid.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 164 Bi Cipres side Isaac to aspie, If he toke any tide out of lond to flie.
c1430 Brut 439 Whanne tyde of passage come, thei toke the see, and passid ouyr.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ix. sig. Ll5v Then Paridell,..Yglad of so fitte tide Him to commend to her, thus spake.
1657 M. Lawrence Use & Pract. Faith 147 The foolish virgins lost their tide: the wise had much ado to gain it.
1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey ix. 151 For the land is nothing evil, but would bear all things in tide.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > an appointed or fixed time, day, or date
tidea900
stemOE
stevena1225
term?c1225
dayc1300
term dayc1300
stagea1325
hourc1380
setnessa1400
tryst1488
journeyc1500
big day1827
trysting day1842
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xix.] 210 Waciað ge, forðon þe ge ne weoton ne ðone dæg ne ða tide.
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. iii. 262 Þa cwom his tid, þæt he scolde of middangearde to Drihtne feran.
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John ii. 4 & cueð to him se hælend..ne ðaget vel cuom tid min.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 21511 Þe Iuu him spedd til-ward his tide, Ouer term durst he noght bide.
a1436 Domesday Ipswich v, in Blk. Bk. Admiralty (Rolls) II. 31 Att tide and hour and tyme, that is to wetyn with ynne the xv. day..that he plete to his aduersarye.
a. Any definite time in the course of the day; as eventide n., morrow-tide n., noontide n.; spec. the point at which any hour is completed; as ‘at the tenth tide of the day’; = hour n. 3. Obsolete.
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the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day
tidea900
timeOE
time of the dayc1225
hourc1315
clocka1616
age of the day1632
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xix. [xxvii.] 240 Ymb þa teogðan tid dæges.
OE Beowulf 484 Ðonne wæs þeos medoheal on morgentid, drihtsele dreorfah.
1056–66 Inscr. on Dial Kirkdale Ch., Yorks. Þis is dæges sol merca æt ilcum tide.
c1160 Hatton Gosp. John i. 39 Hyt wæs þa seo teoðe tyd.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Coll. Phys.) l. 9810 Apon a dai at tide of none, An angel come and stode him bi.
c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §5. 20 Ley thanne thy label ouer..& find in the bordure the verrey tide of the day.
1493 Festivall (1515) 7 He hyred people to labour by all the tydes of the day.
1903 Westm. Gaz. 10 June 2/3 I go to you at gloaming-tide.
b. A more or less definite point or season in the course of the year, of life, etc., usually defined by a prefixed word; as April-tide, June-tide; New-Year's tide, summer's tide, winter's tide, etc.; also autumn tide n. at autumn n. Compounds 5, spring tide n., summertide n., wintertide n., etc.: = time n. 14a archaic or poetic.
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the world > time > period > year > season > [noun]
tidea900
timeOE
yearOE
season1340
the world > time > period > year > [noun] > new year or early part of
New Yearc1175
New-Year's tide1556
New Year mass1588
a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. xxix. [xxviii.] 366 Þa ne com ðær nænig grownes up ne wæstm, ne furðum brordes oð sumeres tid.
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 444 Swa swa on lengctenlicere tide, rosena blostman and lilian hi ymtrymedon.
c1122 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1006 In þære midde wintres tide.
1541 in Hist. MSS Comm.: MSS Duke of Rutland (1905) IV. 312 in Parl. Papers (Cd. 2606) LXIII. 301 For bryngyng a bore at Newe Yere tide, ij s. iiij d.
1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 57 Item at Newyeeres tyde after was put downe the qwyne of the testornes.
1633 P. Massinger New Way to pay Old Debts iv. ii. sig. I3v Thy wife brought me Last new yeares tide, a couple of fat turkies.
1840 Penny Cycl. XVI. 177/1 Gifts at new-year's-tide formed a charge of no small amount in the privy-purse expenses of royalty.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 307 When April-tide was melting into May.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 105 High over all the yellowing Autumn-tide.
1900 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 2/3 The green woods under the Junetide skies Slope and gleam to the Solent strand.
1902 Westm. Gaz. 20 Mar. 9/1 The profits at Coronation-tide are expected to be heavy.
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society > faith > worship > canonical hours > [noun] > one of
tidec1000
day tideOE
c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 90/6 Ic sincge ælce dæg seofon tida.
c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints xxxiii. 344 Nu wille ic þæt þu..singe þær þine tida.
1028–60 Laws Northumbr. Priests §36 gif preost on gesetne timan tida ne ringe oððe tida ne singe, gebete þæt.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 215 Þane hit time beð to done þe tiden.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 36 Toward þe preostes tiden hercnið se forð se ȝe maȝen.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 20 Ed þe þreo tiden seggeð Pater noster wið crede. biforen vchtsong. & et prime & et compelin.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 7605 Vor him ne ssolde no day abide Þat he ne hurde masse & matines & euesong & ech tide.
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxxvii. 767 Atome þou maiȝt ful wel abyde Til he haue seid þe laste tyde.
c1400 St. Alexius (Laud 622) 30 Forto seruen god almiȝth By tides and by houres.
1557 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 386 The said Wardayn..shall dayly saye or singe..in the quere the tydes or houres, as tercio, sexto and nono.
6.
a. An anniversary or festival of the church: chiefly in the names of holy seasons or saints' days, e.g. St. Andrew's tide, †Saint Botulf's tide. See also All-Hallowtide n. at All-Hallows n. Compounds 2, Christ-tide n., Eastertide n., Lammas-tide n. at Lammas n. Compounds 1, Shrovetide n., Whitsuntide n., high tide n., holy-tide n., etc.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun]
tidea900
holidayc950
massOE
holy-daya1000
mass-dayOE
high tideOE
holy-tidea1035
good tideOE
high dayOE
feastc1200
feast dayc1300
ferie1377
festival day1389
solemnity1390
solennityc1400
feastful day1440
festiala1450
festivala1500
sacre1542
panegyry1641
Magdalene-tide1649
church festival1661
surplice day1663
festa1800
festa day1835
fiesta1844
a900 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 759 Her Bregowine wæs to ercebisc̃ gehadod to Sc̃e Michaeles tide.
a900 Old Eng. Martyrol. 18 May 84 On þone eahtateogðan dæg þæs monðes bið sancte Johannes tid.
c1050 Byrhtferth's Handboc in Anglia (1885) 8 300 Fram easter tide þæt he eft cume.
c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 8895 Att te passke messe daȝȝ..þe boc hemm tahhte. To frellsenn þær þatt heȝhe tid.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 3 To dai is cumen ðe holie tid þat me clepeð aduent.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 10877 Sir edward ibore was A seint botulfes tid.
c1400 Brut cxxxix. 146 Þe sege endurede fro Michelmasse vnto Seynt Andrewus tyde.
a1568 R. Ascham Scholemaster (1570) i. f. 6v In a faire garden about S. Iames tyde.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xv. 636/1 From the next Michaels-tide vnto Easter.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 12 At Mighill-tide it will be good to sow Wall-flowers.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. i. 12 What hath this day deseru'd..That it in golden letters should be set Among the high tides in the Kalender? View more context for this quotation
1819 W. Cobbett Year's Resid. U.S.A. ii. iii. 159 The country people in England go, to this day,..by the tides; and,..in some cases, by the moveable tides. My gardener..very reluctantly obeyed me..in sowing green kale..because Whitsuntide was not come, and that, he said, was the proper season.
1839 J. H. Newman Parochial Serm. IV. xxiii. 385 Feast-day and fast-day, holy tide and other tide.
1903 E. K. Chambers Mediæval Stage I. i. 16 Holy week, and similar solemn tides.
1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 49/2 In the Anglican Communion, St. Andrewstide is widely observed by intercessions for foreign missions.
1975 Church Times 15 Aug. 2/3 Last week—St Laurence-tide—all the churches supported a flower festival in the chapel.
1976 Church Times 15 Oct. 5/1 It has become the custom at St. Luke's-tide for the Church to pray for doctors.
b. dialect. A village ‘feast’ or fair (taking place on the festival of the patron saint of the parish).
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > specific festivities > [noun] > annual parish festival
wake?c1225
revel1478
give ale1524
feast1559
tide1824
thump1884
1824 [see tide-time n. at Compounds 1].
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Tide, a feast; as Bingley tide.
1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. (MS.) Boistall-tide will be next week.
1865 R. Hunt Pop. Romances W. Eng. (1871) 1st Ser. 62 The strongest beer, which was intended to have been kept for a tide.
1884 Let. to Editor (O.E.D. Archive) The Annual General Holiday at Bingley, Yorks., is still called ‘Bingley Tide’.
II. Tide of the sea. [This sense corresponds exactly to Middle Low German getîde neuter, tîde tie, neuter and feminine, Low German tīde, Middle Dutch ghetîde neuter, early modern Dutch tijde, Dutch tij neuter, ‘tide of the sea’, a particular application of Middle Low German getîde, ‘fixed time, time of prayer, proper time, opportunity, space of time’. Old English had no form corresponding to getîde (using for ‘tide’ (of the sea) flód or flód and ebba); and tíd or tide in this sense is not known before 1340; it may have been then introduced from or used after the Middle Low German word; but as Middle English tide had neither the difference of form nor of gender seen in de tît and dat tîde, actual formal evidence of the borrowing is wanting. There may have been a transference of sense in English itself, as well as in Low German. The following two early examples appear to mean ‘the time of high water’, rather than the flood tide itself, or the phenomenon of the tides:]
1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 1215 For þe se, aftir þe tydes certayn, Ebbes and flowes, and falles agayn.
c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 1036 Fro day to nyght it changeth as the tyde.
7.
a. The flowing or swelling of the sea, or its alternate rising and falling, twice in each lunar day, due to the attraction of the moon and, in a less degree, of the sun; the alternate inflow and outflow produced by this on a coast, the flood and ebb.cross, flood, high, low, neap, windward tide, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > [noun]
tidea1500
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > ebb and flow
ebb and flooda1000
tidea1500
recourse1549
flux and reflux1612
a1500 (?a1400) Sir Torrent of Portyngale (1887) l. 1427 I Rede, we take down sayle & Rowe, While we haue this tyde.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 281/1 Tyde of the see, flet, flote.
1565 A. Golding tr. Caesar Martiall Exploytes in Gallia iii. f. 72 There was no comming to theym on foote, by reason of the rysyng of the tydes.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. L4v As through an Arch, the violent roaring tide, Outruns the eye. View more context for this quotation
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry V ii. iii. 13 Betweene twelue and one, Iust at turning of the tide.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. i. 46 Both winde and tide stayes for this Gentleman. View more context for this quotation
1698 J. Keill Exam. Theory Earth (1734) 161 It is certain, that a Comet, when it passed by the Earth, would raise a very strong and prodigious Tide in the Seas that were then on the Surface.
1814 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. II. ii. viii. 326 The alternate rise and fall of the surface of the sea twice in the course of a lunar day, or of 24h 50m 48sec of mean solar time, is the phenomenon known by the name of the Tides.
1831 F. A. Kemble Let. 6 Jan. in Rec. Girlhood (1878) II. viii. 237 The tide had not yet come in.
b. transferred. A recurrent flow, alternate rise and fall or increase and decrease, other than of the sea. acid tide, a temporary increase of acidity of the urine while fasting; alkaline tide, a corresponding decrease of acidity during digestion.
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the world > time > frequency > [noun] > recurrence > recurrent flow or alternate rise or fall
tide1604
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies ii. xiii. 113 The return of the same windes, which otherwise they call the tide or winde of the sea.
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 558 A wonderfull well..which ordinarily ebbeth and floweth foure times in the space of one houre or thereabout, keeping his iust tides.
1787 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. (ed. 2) 138 The aerial tides must be much more considerable than those of the ocean.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 172 When there are two tides or fluxes [of fever] within the twenty-four hours, the one occurs in the morning, the other in the evening.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. IV. 393 A fresh tide of water will not unfrequently accumulate, and the head become as much distended as before.
1853 W. C. Bryant Poems (new ed.) 272 Swayed by the sweeping of the tides of air.
1897 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. IV. 293 This increased excretion is most marked during the alkaline tide.
8. The space of time between two successive points of high water, or between low water and high water, in the sea; also, that portion of this time during which the height of the water (‘state of the tide’) allows of work being done, as in tide's work: see quot. 1867. So, in Mining, a period of twelve hours ( Encycl. Dict. 1888).
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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > time between high tides, or between high and low tide
tide1495
1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c. 22 §1 A Calker laboring by the tyde, for as longe tyme as he may labour above the Water and beneth the Water, shall not excede for his Wages for every tyde iiij d.
1534 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1905) VI. 234 Payit..to xv men to cast the space of xv tydis about the schip, viij d. the man for ilk tyde.
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 299 [They] might..come by Sea in two Tides.
1758 J. Blake Plan Marine Syst. 63 A ship going into dock for a tide or two to clean.
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §175 We..landed, and got a tide's work of four hours.
1803 R. Pering in Naval Chron. 15 154 (Royal Naval Yards) The extra [work] was divided into nights and tides:—a night consisted of five hours, and a tide of an hour and an half.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Tide's work, the amount of progress a ship has made during a favourable tide. Also, a period of necessary labour on a ship during the ebbing and slack water of a tide.
9. figurative. Applied to that which is like the tide of the sea in some way; as in ebbing or flowing, rising or falling, or ‘turning’ at a certain time.
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the world > time > change > alternation > change of fortune > [noun] > symbol of
tide1390
wheel of Providence1655
the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [noun] > rise and fall > that which
tide1390
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 61 Betre is to wayte upon the tyde Than rowe ayein the stremes stronge.
c1430 Hymns Virg. 69/368 Þe tyde [of life] is ebbid, & no more wole flowe.
a1513 W. Dunbar Flyting in Poems (1998) I. 206 Oft beswakkit with ane ourhie tyd.
1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. E4v My vncontrolled tide Turnes not, but swels the higher by this let. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 270 There is a Tide in the affayres of men, Which taken at the Flood, leades on to Fortune. View more context for this quotation
1777 J. Priestley Disquis. Matter & Spirit p. xvi The tide of popular prejudice may rise still higher.
1781 Protestant Assoc. iv. 17 His faithful troops from every side Are brought to turn the rapid tide.
1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. vii. 117 This speech turned the tide.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. vi. 54 From that moment the tide of battle turned.
1900 Daily News 7 Dec. 8/5 The dramatic tide has its ebb and flow like other tides.
1915 M. B. Lowndes Let. 10 Mar. (1971) 57 There is an invasion scare but I don't believe in that... I do think the tide has now turned.
1935 E. Waugh Edmund Campion i. 24 That generation was inured to change; sooner or later the tide would turn in their favour again.
1941 P. Carr English are like That i. 18 He must have patience—patience..in the face of misrepresentation, patience to wait for the turn of the tide.
1982 Church Times 5 Feb. 8/3 After that [donation] who will be surprised to hear that the tide shows signs of turning at St. Christopher's?
1982 D. Fraser Alanbrooke iv. 79 In the autumn of 1918 the tide finally turned.
10. spec. = flood-tide n. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > high
main floodc1303
full flooda1375
full sea1390
high water1422
full water1498
full tide1538
high tide1546
tide1570
headwater1594
young flood1611
pleni-tide1617
top of flood1867
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > type of tide > [noun] > high > time of
tide1570
1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiv/1 Ye Tyde, accessus maris.
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida v. i. 80 I haue important businesse, The tide whereof is now. View more context for this quotation
1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 633 The River at every tide riseth to a great heigth.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 249 By an exquisite observation of the Tides and Ebbings of the Sea they were wont to reckon their months and years.
1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iii. i. 18 There is that at work in England which, taken at the tide, may lead on to fortune.
1893 R. L. Stevenson Catriona iii. 27 It seemed the devil was in it, if I was to die in that tide of my fortunes.
11.
a. transferred. A body of flowing water or other liquid; a stream, a current. poetic and rhetorical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > current > [noun]
currentc1380
veina1500
ford1563
tide1585
vein1600
draught1601
currency1758
stream-currenta1830
palaeocurrent1955
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > [noun] > that which flows > as a current
tide1728
15.. Sir A. Barton xxxix, in Surtees Misc. (1888) 75 Betwexte Trent tid and Tyne.]
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xii. 47 b The fishes being carried by the violence of the floud, and tyde of the Euxine Sea into Propontide.
1728 J. Thomson Spring 28 Stands each attractive Plant, and sucks, and swells The juicy Tide.
1738 J. Wesley Coll. Psalms & Hymns (new ed.) cxxxvii. i Fast by the Babylonish Tide (The Tide our Sorrows made o'erflow).
1757 T. Gray Ode II iii. iii, in Odes 21 Deep in the roaring tide he plung'd.
1855 M. Gatty Parables 39 She used to sing to the tide of the river as it swept along.
1872 Ld. Tennyson Last Tournament in Gareth & Lynette 132 Feel this arm of mine—the tide within..Pulsing full man.
b. transferred and figurative.
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a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iii. i. 260 Thou art the Ruines of the Noblest man That euer liued in the Tide of Times. View more context for this quotation
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 90 A lofty Gate..T' admit the Tydes of early Visitants.
1781 W. Cowper Retirem. 453 The tide of life..May run in cities with a brisker force.
1830 M. T. Sadler Law of Population I. 430 A tide of emigration has set in from the Old World to the New.
12. The water of the sea; the sea (esp. when the tide is flowing). poetic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > [noun]
sea-floodc893
brimc937
streamc950
foamOE
mereOE
seaOE
sea of (the) oceanc1300
brookc1400
float1477
strand1513
breec1540
burnc1540
broth1558
Thetisie1600
fishpond1604
brine1605
pond1612
Thetisc1620
brack1627
herring-pond1686
tide1791
black water1816
lave1825
briny1831
salt water1839
blue1861
swan's bath1865
puddle1869
ditch1922
oggin1945
the world > the earth > water > body of water > sea water > [noun]
fish-broth1599
tide1791
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 74 A brauer choyse of dauntlesse spirits..Did neuer flote vpon the swelling tide. View more context for this quotation]
1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. xx. 74 Whelm me deep in Ocean's restless tide!
1821 Ld. Byron Two Foscari i. i, in Sardanapalus 186 Bounding o'er yon blue tide.
1840 E. Cook Melaia (new ed.) 221 I'm afloat! I'm afloat on the fierce rolling tide; The ocean's my home! and my bark is my bride!
III. Phrases.† 13. † b. the tide abides for, tarrieth (for) no man, stays no man, tide nor time tarrieth no man: now superseded by time and tide wait for no man at time n., int., and conj. Phrases 6f. Here tide originally meant ‘time’, but from the 16th cent. has usually meant the tide of the sea. Cf. time n., int., and conj. and tide, in both senses. Obsolete.
a. tide and (or) time (also time and tide: see time n., int., and conj. Phrases 1h): an alliterative reduplication, in which the two words were more or less synonyms, or = time and (or) season. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun]
tide and (or) timea1225
tensec1315
time1340
a1225 St. Marher. 18 And te tide and te time þat tu iboren were, schal beon iblescet.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 2456 in Macro Plays 150 Þer is no dysese nor debate,..tyde nor tyme, erly nor late, but þat Couetyse is þe grounde.
1572 (a1500) Taill of Rauf Coilȝear (1882) 48 I leid my life in this land mith mekle vnrufe, Baith tyde and tyme, in all my trauale.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 26 b At al tide and tymes whensoeuer they shall be commaunded.
1604 Penniles Parl. Threed-bare Poets in Iacke of Dover Quest of Inquirie sig. F3 If Dauncers keepe not tyde and time in their measures.
ΚΠ
1430–40 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes iii. xi. (Bodl. 263) 178/2 The tid abit nat for no maner man.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue i. iii. sig. Aiv The sure sea man seeth, the tyde tarieth no man.
a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) i. ii. sig. A.iijv Farewell all my good friendes, the tyme away dothe waste, And the tide they say, tarieth for no man.
1579 G. Harvey Let. to Spenser in Wks. (1884) I. 20 The Tyde tarryeth no manne, but manye a good manne is fayne to tarry the Tyde.
1592 R. Greene Disput. Conny-catcher sig. D2v Tyde nor tyme tarrieth no man.
a1625 J. Fletcher Womans Prize iv. v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ppppp3v/2 The tide staies no man.
14. (in) double tides, ? as if taking advantage of both the tides in one day; esp. to work double tides, to work as hard as possible; so to roar, spin, etc. double tides. Cf. sense 8.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > acting vigorously or energetically [phrase] > with great vigour or energy
with (also in) mood and maineOE
vigour13..
with or by (all one's) might and mainc1330
with (one's) forcec1380
like anything1665
hammer and tongs1708
like stour1787
(in) double tides1788
like blazes1818
like winking1827
with a will1827
like winky1830
like all possessed1833
in a big way1840
like (or worse than) sin1840
full swing1843
like a Trojan1846
like one o'clock1847
like sixty1848
like forty1852
like wildfire1857
like old boots1865
like blue murder1867
like steam1905
like stink1929
like one thing1938
like a demon1945
up a storm1953
1788 F. Burney Diary July (1842) IV. 162 I was most content to work double tides for the pleasure of his company.
1805 Naval Chron. 13 243 The..Caulkers worked extra double tides in gangs.
1832 Examiner 745/2 The artisans work double tides, that is, they perform two days' labour in one.
1859 C. M. Yonge Cameos lii, in Monthly Packet Aug. 128 There is not a spinster in Brittany who will not spin double tides until my purchase money be raised.
1889 H. R. Haggard Allan's Wife 300 The wounded lioness was now roaring double tides.
Compounds
C1. In senses belonging to branch I.† tide-wise adv. Obsolete at times, now and then.
tide-beef n. dialect beef provided for a ‘tide’ or feast.
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the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > beef > [noun] > types of beef
grass beef1522
manzo1594
bull-meat1812
tide-beef1896
Kobe1900
1896 Yorks. Weekly Post 29 Feb. in Eng. Dial. Dict. He'd made up his mind they s'ould hae some reight tide-beef.
tide-serving n. time-serving.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [noun] > temporizing or trimming
time servicea1555
temporizing1590
time-serving1608
temporizement1647
trimming1696
time-servingness1742
temporization1761
tide-serving1819
mongrelism1831
mugwumpism1886
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor xi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. II. 283 The office shall just cost him as much time-serving and tide-serving, as if [etc.].
tide-time n. (see sense 6b).
ΚΠ
1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village (1863) I. 201 At tide-times he loiters in the chimney-corner at the Rose.
1875 T. Hardy in Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 553 To eyes that had seen her in tide-times [earlier publ. seasons] of weal.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > periodically
termlya1450
by circuit1601
revolvingly1611
tide-wise1611
periodically1646
statedly1658
regularly1665
regular1704
clockwork-like1761
1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Interpollatamente, at certaine seasons, not continually, tide-wise.
C2. In senses belonging to branch II.
a.
(a) Simple attributive ‘of the tide, tidal’.
tide-bar n. (bar n.1 15.)
ΚΠ
1898 J. Buchan in To Day 5 Nov. 7/2 The river the noo is no three feet deep a' ower, wi' sands and the shift o' the tide-bar.
tide-channel n.
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiv. 142 The outside tide-channel..was now full of squeezed ice.
tide-edge n.
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1931 W. Faulkner Sanctuary xxiii. 267 A world left stark and dying above the tide-edge of the fluid in which it lived.
tide-flow n.
tide-flux n.
tide-lead n. (lead n.2 3b.)
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xxvi. 337 The tide-leads..one year ago had afforded a precarious passage to the vessel.
tide-level n.
ΚΠ
1865 Mrs. L. L. Clarke Common Seaweeds vi. 113 If the sea-marks change, and tide-level varies.
1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 180 The Ordnance Survey has fixed its datum line, or standard from which all heights are measured, as the mean tide-level at Liverpool.
tide-limit n.
tide-line n.
ΚΠ
1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1860) iv. 40 We found the waves chafing among the rocks just where the tide-line had rested 12 hours before.
tide mud n.
ΚΠ
1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xlvi. 476 This low girl whom he picked out of the tide-mud.
tide-print n.
ΚΠ
1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 9 Moonfall and sailing emperor, pale as their tide-print.
tide-race n. (race n.1 12.)
ΚΠ
1883 Harper's Mag. Aug. 375/1 These numerous tide-races often make the St. Lawrence a rough passage for small craft.
tide-reach n.
tide-run n.
ΚΠ
1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 226 The tide-runs are traceable upon the surface of the ocean.
tide rush n.
tide-stream n.
ΚΠ
1795 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1918) LIV. 101 To compensate for any supposed inconveniences that may attend a tide stream.
1875 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. (ed. 2) v. 146 In describing tide-streams in the offing, caution must be observed in not confusing the ‘flood’ and ‘ebb’ streams.
tide-turn n.
ΚΠ
1885 Chambers's Jrnl. 513 There is an ‘overfall’ here—foul ground below, over which the currents eddy and swirl, especially at tide-turn.
tide-wash n.
ΚΠ
1882 J. Geikie in Nature 9 Nov. 44/2 Tracts now within tide-wash.
(b)
(i) ‘Dependent on or regulated by the state of the tide, tidal’.
tide coach n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > stagecoach or mail coach > timed to the tide
tide coach1748
1748 T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxiv. 228 He took a place in the tide-coach for Rochester.
tide harbour n.
ΚΠ
1793 J. Smeaton Narr. Edystone Lighthouse (ed. 2) §92 The false idea..of its being a tide harbour, with a Bar at its mouth.
(ii) ‘Filled, overflowed, or covered by the tide’.
tide-flat n.
ΚΠ
1859 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 4) 146 The tide-flats below are still unfinished, dry land in the process of creation.
1929 W. Faulkner Sound & Fury 211 I saw the last light supine and tranquil upon tideflats.
tide hole n.
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xx. 260 Our tide-hole freezes every night alongside.
tide-land n.
ΚΠ
1884 C. S. Sargent Rep. Forests N. Amer. 206 Tide-Land Spruce... A large tree of great economic value.
1969 R. C. Hosie Native Trees Canada (ed. 7) 68 Sitka Spruce. Tideland Spruce... Produces a long, branch-free, cylindrical trunk.
tide-marsh n.
tide pool n.
ΚΠ
1853 Zoologist 11 4055 Almost every tide-pool and hollow that retains the sea-water.
tide-rock n.
ΚΠ
1859 C. Kingsley Glaucus (ed. 4) 71 A cluster of barnacles..of the same family as those which stud the tide-rocks in millions.
(iii) In names of instruments for measuring the tides, or the like.
tide ball n.
ΚΠ
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Tide-ball, a ball hoisted to denote when the depth of water permits vessels to enter a bar-harbour, or to take the bar outside.
tide dial n.
ΚΠ
1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained xvi. §409. 262 The Tide Dial... A moving elliptical Plate, painted blue, to represent the rising of the Tides, under, and opposite to, the Moon.
tide gauge n.
ΚΠ
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 342/1 A description of a new Tide Gauge.
1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) i. §14 The tide-gauges showed that several well-marked..waves had arrived off the coast.
tide-meter n.
tide predictor n.
ΚΠ
1891 Cent. Dict. Tide-predictor.
1898 Academy 5 Nov. 194/1 No more marvellous instrument has ever been invented than the mechanical tide-predictor devised by Lord Kelvin.
tide staff n.
ΚΠ
1857 R. Tomes Americans in Japan v. 128 An officer and two men were also stationed on land, near where a tide-staff had been planted, and were prepared to make observations.
(c) Objective and objective genitive.
(i)
tide-master n.
ΚΠ
1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 4 The silent tide Lapping the still canals, the dry tide-master Ribbed between desert and water storm.
tide-turner n.
ΚΠ
1922 D. H. Lawrence Fantasia of Unconscious xv. 272 The moon is the tide-turner.
(ii)
tide-generating adj.
ΚΠ
1863 J. Tyndall Heat (1870) iv. §122. 106 The tide generating forces of the sun and moon.
tide-predicting adj.
ΚΠ
1898 Academy 5 Nov. 194/1 Lord Kelvin's tide-predicting machine.
tide-producing adj.
tide-taking adj.
(d) Instrumental, etc.
tide-beat adj.
ΚΠ
1807 J. Barlow Columbiad vii. 272 Two British forts the growing siege outflank, Rake its wide works and awe the tide-beat bank.
tide-beset adj.
tide-borne adj.
ΚΠ
1957 R. Campbell Coll. Poems II. 99 The swirl, the spray, the nimbus, and the wave Of tide-borne lust and beauty.
tide-bound adj.
ΚΠ
1910 Q. Rev. July 88 Tide-bound at midnight in a small boat off..Deathhole Creek.
tide-carved adj.
ΚΠ
1897 W. J. McGee in Bull. Geol. Soc. Amer. 8 92 The tide-carved coast cuts a typical granitic butte..rising sharply from the inclined foot-slope of Sierra Seri, yet the rugged-faced knob is seen to surmount a granite pediment nearly half a mile across in the line of section.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 4 Sept. 7/3 We clambered down to tide-carved caverns.
tide-caught adj.
tide-covered adj.
tide-driven adj.
tide-flooded adj.
tide-forsaken adj.
ΚΠ
a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) Soliloquy viii. 43 As tide-forsaken Rocks along the Main.
tide-free adj.
ΚΠ
1861 J. Brown Lett. (1907) 142 Glengariff is not tide-free.
tide-hoisted adj.
ΚΠ
1936 D. Thomas Twenty-five Poems 41 The winder of the clockwise scene..threw on that tide-hoisted screen Love's image.
tide-like adj. (and adv.)
ΚΠ
1848 E. C. Gaskell Mary Barton Pref. p. vii With ever-returning tide-like flood.
tide-locked adj.
tide-looped adj.
ΚΠ
1939 D. Thomas Map of Love 4 Or like the tide-looped breastknot reefed again.
tide-ribbed adj.
ΚΠ
1842 F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 43 Thus do idle poets stand Lonely on the tide-ribbed sand.
tide-tongued adj.
ΚΠ
1934 D. Thomas New Verse xii. 11 Among the rabble Of tide-tongued heads and bladders in the deep.
tide-tossed adj.
ΚΠ
1889 P. H. Emerson Eng. Idyls 42 Tide-tossed trees..rise upon the face of the waters.
tide-traced adj.
ΚΠ
1936 D. Thomas Twenty-five Poems 44 Cartoon of slashes on the tide-traced crater.
tide-trapped adj.
tide-washed adj.
ΚΠ
1832 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 2) II. 181 Almost every tide-washed rock is carpeted with fuci and studded with corallines, actiniæ, and mollusca.
tide-worn adj.
ΚΠ
1858 N. J. Gannon O'Donoghue ii. 28 The spray That crowns the tide-worn rock.
b. Special combinations: † tide-duty n. Obsolete import or export duty levied at a port.
tide-board n. a board placed to prevent buildings being flooded at high tides.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > [noun] > means of protection or defence > device or contrivance to protect a thing or person > boards to protect from floods
flood-boards1869
tide-board1904
1904 Westm. Gaz. 31 Dec. 7/2 Thousands of tons of water poured over the tide boards and protecting walls of various warehouses, flooding the wharves and warehouses.
tide-crack n. in polar regions, an ice-crack near the shore caused by the rise and fall of the tide, which breaks the floating from the shore ice.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > ice > land ice > [noun] > crack caused by tide
tide-crack1856
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiii. 131 He has risen by the side of an ice-berg..or through a tide-crack.
tide-current n. the current caused in a tidal channel by the rise or fall of the tide (Ogilvie, 1882).
tide-day n. (see quot.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > [noun] > tide-day
tide-day1833
1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy xi. 337 The tide-day (i.e. the interval between two successive arrivals at the same place of the same vertex of the tide-wave.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > shipping dues > [noun]
lastinglOE
lastage1205
anchorage1405
strandage1419
plankage1424
quayage1440
lowage1457
measurage1460
perch money1466
perching1483
keel-toll?1499
wharf-gelt1505
sand-gelt1527
wharfage1535
soundage1562
towage1562
groundage1567
bankage1587
rowage1589
shore-silver1589
pilotage1591
dayage1592
ballastage1594
rivage1598
pieragec1599
shore-mail1603
lightage1606
shorage1611
port charge1638
light money1663
port due1663
water-bailage1669
mensuragea1676
mooragea1676
keelage1679
shore-due1692
harbour-due1718
lockage1722
magazinage1736
jettage?1737
light duty1752
tide-duty1769
port duty1776
dockage1788
light due1793
canalage1812
posting-dues1838
warpage1863
winch1864
postage1868
flag-dues1892
berthage1893
shore-levy-
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Compost, a tide-duty, or revenue, arising from shipping.
tide-flap n. a tidal valve opening outwardly at the mouth of a drain or small tidal stream.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice > for regulating outflow
waste-hatch1705
waste-gate1791
tide-flap1843
waste-sluice1844
1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 426/1 At the end of the main sewer was placed a cast-iron frame, upon which were hung three tide-flaps with brass facings.
tide-house n. a (public) house adjacent to a tidal stream.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > other types of tavern
soaking club1694
molly-house1728
night house1728
tide-house1764
rathskeller1768
morning-house1781
free public house1793
lust-house1818
gin palace1833
free and easy1842
schooner-house1893
gay bar1947
tasca1957
singles bar1969
pub theatre1971
theme pub1983
brewpub1985
gastropub1996
1764 T. Legg Low-life (ed. 3) 100 The Landlords of Tide-Houses, both up and down the River Thames, looking out sharp for Boats.
tide-land n. (also tide-lands) North American land(s) covered by the tide; tide-land spruce = Sitka spruce n. at Sitka adj. and n. Compounds 2.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > seashore or coast > [noun] > covered by sea
washc1440
sea-common1584
salting1712
inksa1740
tide-land1787
sea-grounds1826
salting-mound1908
shore1919
tide-water1949
the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > conifers > [noun] > other conifers
juniper1748
bald cypress1785
Norfolk Island pine1803
Norfolk pine1804
taxodium1821
kahikatea1823
Moreton Bay pine1826
mai1831
matai1831
white pine1833
podocarp1846
black rue1864
plum fir1866
cephalotaxus1883
hoop-pine1884
mountain hemlock1884
tide-land spruce1891
kahika1921
Leyland's cypress1933
Metasequoia1941
1787 W. H. Siebert Loyalists in E. Florida, 1851–94 (1929) II. 239 200 acres of rich tide land well dam'd.
1891 Cent. Dict. Tide-land.
1895 Home Missionary (N.Y.) Sept. 292 Deep alluvial valleys of great fertility, tide-lands similar to those of Holland.
1975 N.Y. Times 25 Feb. 16/3 Gas resources did not become a controversial issue until the mid-nineteenthirties when oil companies began drilling wells in the tidelands.
tide-lock n. a double lock between tidal water and a canal or the like; a guard-lock.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > water > body of water > channel of water > [noun] > navigable waterway > canal > lock or chamber > types of lock
sidelock1761
tide-lock1808
weigh-lock1834
sea-lock1839
tail-lock1907
riser1908
1808 B. H. Latrobe Let. 16 Mar. in Niles' Reg. (1818) XV. 54/2 It would be necessary to place the tide lock as far out as possible.
1838 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 1 148/2 The method by which the main or framing piles of the coffer-dam for the tide-lock..were fixed to the rock.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Guard-lock (Hydraulic Engineering), a tide-lock, forming a communication between a basin and tide-water.
tide-maker n. that which causes the tides; also, a vessel which is compelled to take advantage of the tide.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > [noun] > boat dependent on tide
tide-boat1576
tidal1866
tidal boat1888
tide-maker1903
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > [noun] > that which causes
tide-maker1903
1903 Westm. Gaz. 6 Jan. 4/2 The moon is not only a tide-maker in the marine sense. Its tangential ‘pull’ affects the earth's atmosphere.
1910 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 10/2 His hard overworked apprenticeship to the sea in coasting-schooners, in undermanned, under-engined ‘tide-makers’.
tide-plate n. a dial on which the state of the tide is indicated.
ΚΠ
1756 J. Ferguson Astron. Explained xvi. §409. 263 The Elliptical or Tide Plate, with the Moon fixt to it, is upon the Axis of the Wheel.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 496 An error of three-quarters of an hour in each lunation will place the tide~plate H, three hours wrong in the space of about four months.
tide-register n. a record of tide-movements; also, an apparatus that registers tide-movements.
ΚΠ
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. xi. 117 Our tide-register was on board the vessel.
tide-river n. a tidal river.
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the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > types of river > [noun] > specific
headwater1535
Sabbatical river1613
salt river1659
tide-river1739
river pirate1743
salmon river1753
artery1787
warp-river1799
feeder1825
lost river1843
banker1848
tidal river1877
pirate1889
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 80 So wide a Tide-River as the Thames.
tide-rode adj. Nautical (for tide-ridden), swung by the tide, as a ship at anchor; opposed to wind-rode.
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society > travel > travel by water > action or motion of vessel > [adjective] > swung at anchor
wind-rode1635
tide-rode1823
1823 G. Crabb Technol. Dict. Tide-road (Mar.), the situation of a vessel which, being at anchor when the wind and tide are opposed to each other, has her head towards the current.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 197 When not tide rode, pick the lee anchor up.
tide-roost n. (roost n.2, race).
ΚΠ
1912 Chambers's Jrnl. 757/2 Round the Shiant Isles there is often a strong tide-roost.
tide-runner n. a fish which moves with the tide (U.S.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > animals > fish > [noun] > defined by movement > that moves with the tide
tide-runner1877
1877 C. Hallock Sportsman's Gazetteer 244 These big fellows [weak fish] are designated as tide-runners.
tide-time n. the time at which the tide serves at any place.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > particular time > [noun] > the time or time of day > at which the tide comes in or goes out
establishment of a port1833
tide-time1840
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > tide > [noun] > time at which tide serves place
tide-time1840
1840 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 3 182/1 Tide-time for vessels of 12-feet draft, is denoted by 2 black balls being kept upon its flag-staff until 12-feet ceases upon the straight course.
tide-wave n. the undulation which passes over the surface of the ocean, and causes high or low tide as its highest or lowest point reaches any place; also figurative.
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the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [noun] > instance or degree of > significant
jump1657
tide-wave1833
tidal wave1870
breakthrough1944
quantum jump1949
quantum leap1956
the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > high wave caused by movement of tide
wave1814
tidal wave1830
tide-wave1833
tide-rip1903
1833 J. F. W. Herschel Astronomy xi. 339 The tide~wave rushing up a narrow channel, is suddenly raised to an extraordinary height.
1861 T. R. Birks Bible & Mod. Th. Introd. 5 The tidewave of sceptical thought, which threatens..to bury the old landmarks of Christian faith.
tide-weather n. (see quot.).
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > [noun] > kinds of weather > a spell of a kind of > specific
tide-weather1740
growing weather1794
sugar-weather1826
sap weather1950
1740 G. Lynn Let. 21 Apr. in Philos. Trans. 1740–41 (Royal Soc.) (1744) 41 689 When the Mercury has been a good while high,..there has fallen mistling Rain; especially about the New and Full Moon, with an Easterly Breeze, which the Borderers on the Coast of Lincolnshire and Norfolk call Tide-weather, and may be occasioned by the Vapours arising from the Tides, which then cover a vast Wash of Sands in their Neighbourhood.
tide-wheel n. a waterwheel turned by the flowing and ebbing of the tide through a narrow channel.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > wheel > [noun] > driven by water
waterwheel1408
flood-wheel1515
breast wheel1744
overshot1760
undershot wheel1760
breast-shot1775
bucket-wheel1797
tub-wheel1815
flutter-wheel1817
danaide1825
wheel1842
reaction waterwheel1847
reaction wheel1852
tide-wheel1864
hurdy-gurdy1868
stream-wheel1875
paddle wheela1884
Pelton1885
turbine-pump1900
1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Tide-wheel.
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 205 A circular basin,..aerated by a powerful fountain of sea water, forced up by a tide-wheel.
tide-work n. work which can be carried on only during hours when the tide is low, or that is paid for by the tide (cf. 8); also, part of the mechanism of a tide-gauge. See also tide-boat n. to tideway n.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > other types of work
church worka1225
kirk work1418
fieldwork1441
labour of love1592
life's work1660
shop work1696
outwork1707
private practice1724
tide-work1739
sales-work1775
marshing1815
work in progress1815
life-work1837
relief work1844
sharp practice1847
near work1850
slop-work1861
repetition work1866
side work1875
rework1878
wage-slavery1886
work in progress1890
war work1891
busywork1893
screen work1912
staff-work1923
gig work1927
knowledge work1959
WIP1966
telework1970
playwork1986
laboratory work2002
the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of
nut1428
peise1428
plumbc1450
Jack1498
clockwork1516
larum1542
Jack of the clockhouse1563
watch-wheel1568
work1570
plummeta1578
Jack of the clock1581
snail-cam1591
snail-work1591
pointer1596
quarter jack1604
mainspring1605
winder1606
notch-wheel1611
fusee1622
count-wheel1647
jack-wheel1647
frame1658
arbor1659
balance1660
fuse1674
hour-figure1675
stop1675
pallet1676
regulator1676
cock1678
movement1678
detent1688
savage1690
clock1696
pinwheel1696
starred wheel1696
swing-wheel1696
warning-wheel1696
watch1696
watch-part1696
hoop-wheel1704
hour-wheel1704
snail1714
step-wheel1714
tide-work1739
train1751
crutch1753
cannon pinion1764
rising board1769
remontoire1774
escapement1779
clock jack1784
locking plate1786
scapement1789
motion work1795
anchor escapement1798
scape1798
star-wheel1798
recoil escapement1800
recoiling pallet1801
recoiling scapement1801
cannon1802
hammer-tail1805
recoiling escapement1805
bottle jack1810
renovating spring1812
quarter-boy1815
pin tooth1817
solar wheel1819
impulse-teeth1825
pendulum wheel1825
pallet arbor1826
rewinder1826
rack hook1829
snail-wheel1831
quarter bell1832
tow1834
star pulley1836
watch train1838
clock train1843
raising-piece1843
wheelwork1843
gravity escapement1850
jumper1850
vertical escapement1850
time train1853
pin pallet1860
spade1862
dead well1867
stop-work1869
ringer1873
strike-or-silent1875
warning-piece1875
guard-pin1879
pendulum cock1881
warning-lever1881
beat-pin1883
fusee-piece1884
fusee-snail1884
shutter1884
tourbillion1884
tumbler1884
virgule1884
foliot1899
grasshopper1899
grasshopper escapement1899
trunk1899
pin lever1908
clock spring1933
1739 C. Labelye Short Acct. Piers Westm. Bridge 33 The Remainder being only common Tide-work, has nothing worth relating.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 493 The wheel-work and tide-work of this clock are represented by fig. 498.
1852 J. Wiggins Pract. Embanking Lands 122 Some allowance is to be made for tide-work and night-work, for bad weather on the coast, loss of materials.
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tidev.1
/tʌɪd/, U.S. /taɪd/ 1. † b. const. with dative: = betide v. 1b. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To happen, befall: = betide v. 1. Often impersonal. archaic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)]
becomec888
i-tidec888
falleOE
ywortheOE
i-limp975
belimpOE
i-timeOE
worthOE
tidea1131
goa1200
arearc1275
syec1275
betide1297
fere1297
risea1350
to come aboutc1350
overcomea1382
passa1393
comea1400
to come in (also to, on, etc.) placea1400
eschew?a1400
chevec1400
shapec1400
hold1462
to come (also go) to pass1481
proceed?1518
occura1522
bechance1527
overpass1530
sorta1535
succeed1537
adventurec1540
to fall toc1540
success1545
to fall forth1569
fadge1573
beword?1577
to fall in1578
happen1580
event1590
arrive1600
offer1601
grow1614
fudge1615
incur1626
evene1654
obvene1654
to take place1770
transpire1775
to go on1873
to show up1879
materialize1885
break1914
cook1932
to go down1946
a1131 Anglo-Saxon Chron. ann. 1123 Þa tidde hit on an Wodnes dei..þet se king rad in his der fald.
1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8649 He..nolde no leng abide Þat he nolde to is game, tide wat so bitide.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 27412 For nakin case þat mai tide.
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3655 Of theire termys they talke, how þay ware tydd.
c1400 Laud Troy Bk. 3804 Off al the harme that we him dud Hadde now not this harme tud.
14.. Sir Beues (MS. M) 663 Tyde what wyll be-tyde The tone of vs shall dede abyde.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 493/2 Tydyn, idem quod happyn.
c1460 Towneley Myst. (1836) vi. 81 May tyde he wille oure giftis take.
1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) i. 127 Ȝe traistyt in lawte,..And wyst nocht quhat suld efter tyd.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. v. 98 How tyde that cais; declair me, I pray the.
1680 A. Haig in J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde (1881) xi. 309 Com what will com, tyde what may tyde, A Haig shall be Laird of Bemersyde.
1808 W. Scott Marmion iii. xxii. 156 Soothly I swear, that tide what tide, The demon shall a buffet bide.
1875 J. Grant One of Six Hundred ii You..shall find that, tide what may, you are not forgotten.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > happen to
tocomeeOE
limpc888
i-timeOE
alimpOE
comeOE
on-becomeOE
tidec1000
befallc1175
betidec1175
betimea1225
fallc1225
time?c1225
yfallc1275
timea1325
happena1393
to run upon ——a1393
behapa1450
bechance1530
succeeda1533
attaina1535
behappen1596
the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > must as decreed by fate [verb (intransitive)] > be one's lot
tidec1000
fallOE
to be made for each other (also one another)1709
c1000 Inst. Polity c. 10 in B. Thorpe Anc. Laws Eng. (1840) II. 316 Þæt heora gewitan beon on æghwylcne timan, weald hwæt heom tide.
c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 29 Witte wel hwat þu hauest, walte hwat þe tide.
c1330 (?c1300) Guy of Warwick (Auch.) l. 4977 Al his lond him tit for-go.
1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xi. 5 (MS. Rawl.) A merueillous meteles me tydde to dreme.
c1384 G. Chaucer Hous of Fame i. 255 Euery caas That hym was tyd vpon the see.
c1430 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) App. G. 213 Þi lyf þe tydeþ luse.
a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. H Some deadly act shall tide me ere I sleep.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (intransitive)] > fall to one
tide955
comeOE
fallc1225
reboundc1425
redound1460
recoil1577
to fall in a person's path (also road, etc.)1605
sort1622
955 in Birch Cart. Sax. III. 75 gif þan biscop[e] hwæt tide.
a1272 Luue Ron 20 in Old Eng. Misc. 93 Her he haueþ seorewen ryue, Ne tyt him neuer Ro ne Rest.
c1300 St. Margarete 308 Bote þu do þis dede Ne tyt þe no part wiþ me.
c1305 St. Swithin 48 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 44 He so doþ his dede mid bobance, him ne tyt non oþer mede.
c1325 Poem Times Edw. II 236 in Pol. Songs (Camden) 334 He doth the wif sethe a chapoun and piece beof, Ne tit the gode man noht therof.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 255 This lang nyght ther tydes me na reste.
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > be or remain in specific state or condition [verb (intransitive)] > fare or get on
farec1000
chevec1300
timea1325
do1340
hapc1350
thrive?a1366
ferea1375
walka1400
chevise14..
fortunea1513
tidec1540
fend1781
go1920
c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 1202 The Troiens were tyde, & tid þere þe bettur.
4. transitive. To meet with, experience (good or evil fortune). Obsolete.‘This appears to be an erroneous use, originating with copyists who misunderstood the construction.’ ( N.E.D.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [verb (transitive)] > encounter or experience
ymetec893
findeOE
meetOE
counterc1325
overtakec1390
limp?a1400
tidea1400
runa1450
to fall with ——?c1475
onlightc1475
recounterc1485
recount1490
to come in witha1500
occur1531
to fall on ——1533
to fall upon ——1533
beshine1574
rencontre1582
entertain1591
cope with1594
happen1594
tocome1596
incur1599
forgather1600
thwart1601
to fall in1675
cross1684
to come across ——1738
to cross upon (or on)1748
to fall across ——1760
experience1786
to drop in1802
encounter1814
to come upon ——1820
to run against ——1821
to come in contact with1862
to run across ——1864
to knock or run up against1886
to knock up against1887
a1400 R. Brunne's Chron. Wace (Petyt MS.) (Rolls) 5495 For chances þat haf ben tyd [Lamb. MS. ffor swylke chaunces þat han bytid].
a1400 Sir Beues 1844 Go, or þe tit [v.r. þou tytyst] an euel diner.
c1472 Chaucer's Compl. Mars 202 (MS. Arch. Seld. B. 24) In mony a cas thay tiden oft tyme sorowe [Fairfax and 2 other MSS hem tydeth, Notary hem tyden].
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tidev.2
/tʌɪd/, U.S. /taɪd/ 1. transitive.
a. To carry, as the tide does. Chiefly figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > transference > [verb (transitive)] > convey or transport > of wind or water > as on the tide
tide1640
1640 F. Quarles Enchyridion iii. 48 Man's Will is the Streame that Tydes them [our actions] up and downe.
1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires vi. 79 The Relicks of the Wrack..are tided back, By the wild Waves, and rudely thrown ashore.
1824 Countess Granville Let. June (1894) I. 303 A flow of animal spirits and good-humour..tided off anything approaching to bore.
1884 Daily News 30 Oct. 7/3 So long will each flood continue to tide up the river varying proportions of sewage or other offensive matter.
b. †To carry through (an undertaking) (obsolete); to enable (a person) to surmount (a difficulty, etc.) as on a swelling tide.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > carrying out > execute, perform, or carry out [verb (transitive)]
lasteOE
ylastc888
wieldeOE
doeOE
dreeOE
forthOE
fremeOE
workOE
affordOE
full-bringc1175
fulfila1225
perfurnisha1325
complishc1374
performc1384
achievea1393
chevisea1400
practic?a1425
exploitc1425
execute1477
furnish1477
through1498
practa1513
enure1549
chare1570
enact1597
act1602
to carry out1608
outcarry1611
celebrate1615
complya1616
peract1621
tide1631
implement1837
1631 B. Jonson Staple of Newes iv. iv. 72 in Wks. II I will tyde This affayre for you; giue it freight, and passage.
1869 E. M. Goulburn Pursuit of Holiness viii. 73 As an exuberant mounting flood shall tide us over the difficulties of our career.
1870 J. Bruce Life Gideon vi. 109 We are to be tided over all our doubts and difficulties by what I would call a swelling flood of evidences or proofs.
1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. 196 We should like to tide him over his low-water difficulties.
2. intransitive (and with it). To flow or surge, as the tide; to flow to and fro; sometimes = ‘flow’ as opposed to ‘ebb’. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > rise or go up [verb (intransitive)] > flow or surge (as the tide)
tide1593
estuate1658
1593 B. Barnes Parthenophil & Parthenophe 26 More then blessed was I if one tyding Of fœmal fauour set mine hart afloate.
1652 W. Brough Preservative against Schisme in Sacred Princ. 52 When Popular Favour blows from us, and Secular Power Tydes it against us, and storms us.
1661 Thracian Wonder v. i. sig. H4 The Seas, Whose equal valor neither Ebbs nor Tides.
1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter II. xii. 229 The muddy stream of domestic correspondence [sc. between the servants] which ‘tided’ between Binford and Severnstoke.
1843 E. Jones Sens. & Event in Poems 3 The sounding crowd That far beneath him tides.
3. transitive. To make to flow as a tide or stream.
ΘΚΠ
the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of flowing > flow [verb (transitive)] > make or allow (to) flow
draw1379
flow1413
unsluice1611
flush1815
tide1861
unsiphon1878
1861 C. Dickens Great Expectations xix, in All Year Round 16 Feb. 435/1 Tiding it [sc. a roll of cloth] out in a flowing manner over the counter.
4.
a. intransitive. To float or drift on the tide; spec. Nautical, to navigate a ship by taking advantage of favouring tides, and anchoring when the tide turns; usually with adverb of direction. Often to tide it.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of tides > [verb (intransitive)] > go with or take advantage of tide
vail1544
avalea1547
to tide it1627
drop1790
to tide one's way1827
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of tides > use tide [verb (transitive)] > navigate ship by using tide
tide1627
the world > movement > progressive motion > moving with current of air or water > movement in or on water > move in or on water [verb (intransitive)] > be carried (away) by current or tide
fleetc897
to-fleeta1122
wash1623
roll1665
tide1896
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. x. 47 To Tide ouer to a place, is to goe ouer with the Tide of ebbe or flood, and stop the contrary by anchoring till the next Tide.
1691 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 244 Our fleet..are now sailed out, and are now tiding it down with the wind directly against them.
1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 3 Aug. (1965) I. 248 We..set out in a calm, and he pretended that there was nothing so easy as to tide it over [from Gravesend to Holland].
1840 F. Marryat Olla Podrida I. xxvi. 276 We tided and warped how we could.
1893 H. M. Doughty Our Wherry in Wendish Lands 71 We could in the morning tide it up further with the flood.
1896 A. Austin England's Darling iv. ii Hither there tided The loose-limbed Briton.
b. figurative. To pass or be carried as on the tide; to drift.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [verb (intransitive)]
overgoeOE
agoeOE
goOE
forthgoOE
runOE
overdrivea1275
farea1325
overmetea1325
walka1325
passc1330
slidec1374
yern1377
to pass overa1382
wastec1385
waive1390
to pass awaya1400
overseyc1400
drive?c1450
to drive ona1470
slevea1510
to roll awaya1522
to roll overa1522
to wear out, forth1525
flit1574
to pass on1574
to run on1578
overhie1582
wear1597
overslip1607
spend1607
travel1609
to go bya1616
elapsea1644
to come round1650
efflux1660
to roll round1684
lapse1702
roll1731
to roll around1769
to roll by1790
transpire1824
to come around1829
tide1835
elabe1837
tick1937
1835 Marquis of Londonderry in Duke of Buckingham Court William IV (1861) II. vii. 186 These questions would certainly tide on till next year.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. vi. 86 He will most surely tide onward,..down the broad current of eternal death.
c. quasi-transitive. to tide one's way: to make one's way by using the tides; also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > continuing > progress, advance, or further continuance > progress or advance in an action [verb (intransitive)]
wadec1374
passc1387
proceeda1393
followa1400
to pass ona1400
to get forward1523
pace1597
step1599
to get on1655
to get along1768
to tide one's way1827
to come along1844
press1870
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of tides > [verb (intransitive)] > go with or take advantage of tide
vail1544
avalea1547
to tide it1627
drop1790
to tide one's way1827
1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 332 Ministers are now endeavouring to tide their way through the session.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 361 We tided our slow way north.
5. intransitive. figurative. to tide over: to get over or surmount (a difficulty, time of stress, etc.) as if by rising on the flowing tide, or by taking advantage of a favourable tide. With indirect passive. Also †to tide it out (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > easiness > do or accomplish something easily [verb (intransitive)] > surmount difficulties
to tide it outa1659
the world > action or operation > easiness > find no difficulty in [verb (transitive)] > surmount (difficulty or disaster)
overcomea1225
surmount1484
compass1561
superate1598
to get above ——1603
to get over ——1618
overa1800
to tide over1821
the world > action or operation > easiness > aid, help, or assistance > types of help > [verb (transitive)] > aid in want
helpc950
relievea1387
beeta1400
to tide over1865
a1659 F. Osborne Ess. ii, in Wks. (1673) 558 Christianity..is prescribed by her Institutes to Tide it out, although the Stream of its Inconveniencies runs never so strong against the Nature of Man.
1821 Ld. Dudley Lett. 21 Apr. I wish we may be able to tide over this difficulty.
1865 J. R. Seeley Ecce Homo (ed. 8) iv. 36 The transgressor has but to tide over a few years.
1884 Manch. Examiner 12 May 4/7 We..believe that for the moment the difficulty is tided over.
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