Tiddle
TID'DLE
TIDE, noun
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[This sense is obsolete.]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, verb transitive To drive with the stream.
TIDE, verb intransitive To work in or out of a river or harbor by favor of the tide, and anchor when it becomes adverse.