1. (prep.) Time; period; season.

2. (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.

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

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

5. (prep.) Violent confluence.

6. (prep.) The period of twelve hours.

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

8. (n.) To betide; to happen.

9. (n.) To pour a tide or flood.

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

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