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Low
·- strong imp. of Laugh.
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low
An old term for a small hill or eminence.
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Tide
·prep Violent confluence.
II. Tide ·prep Time; period; season.
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tide
A regular periodical current of waters, setting alternately in a flux and reflux; it is owing to the...
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tide and half-tide
Those roadsteads affected by several rivers or channels leading into them; as, for instance, Spithea...
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High-low
·noun A laced boot, ankle high.
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Low steel
·add. ·- ·see under <<Low>>.
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Low-church
·adj Not placing a high estimate on ecclesiastical organizations or forms;
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Low-churchism
·noun The principles of the low-church party.
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Low-churchman
·noun One who holds low-church principles.
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Low-churchmanship
·noun The state of being a low-churchman.
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Low-churchmen
·pl of Low-churchman.
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Low-lived
·adj Characteristic of, or like, one bred in a low and vulgar condition of life; mean dishonorable; ...
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Low-minded
·adj Inclined in mind to low or unworthy things; showing a base mind.
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Low-mindedness
·noun The quality of being lowminded; meanness; baseness.
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Low-necked
·adj Cut low in the neck; decollete;
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Low-pressure
·adj Having, employing, or exerting, a low degree of pressure.
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Low-spirited
·adj Deficient in animation and courage; dejected; depressed; not sprightly.
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Low-studded
·adj Furnished or built with short studs; as, a low-studded house or room.
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Low-thoughted
·adj Having one's thoughts directed toward mean or insignificant subjects.
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low pads
Rogues who rob on foot.
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low water
When there is no money in a man's pocket.
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jimmy low
n.
one of the many names of aTimber-tree, Eucalyptus resinifera, Smith, N.O. Myrtaceae.
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low latitudes
Those regions far removed from the poles of the earth towards the equator, 10° south or north of it....
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low sails
The courses and close-reefed top-sails.
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low water
The lowest point to which the tide ebbs. (See tide.) Also, used figuratively for being in distress, ...
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Bartholomew tide
·- Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th.
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Ebb tide
·- The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide;
— opposed to flood tide.
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Tide-rode
·adj Swung by the tide when at anchor;
— opposed to wind-rode.
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yule-tide
Christmas. N.
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cross-tide
The varying directions of the flow amongst shoals that are under water. (See current.)
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double-tide
Working double-tides is doing extra duty. (See work double-tides, to.)
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ebb-tide
The receding or running out of the sea, in contradistinction to flood.
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eddy-tide
When the water runs back from some obstacle to the free passage of the stream.
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falling tide
, or ebb of tide.
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flood-tide
The flux of the tide, or the time the water continues rising. When the water begins to rise, it is c...
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high tide
, or high water.
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lee-tide
A tide running in the same direction as the wind, and forcing a ship to leeward of the line upon whi...
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spring-tide
The periodical excess of the elevation and depression of the tide, which occurs when both the sun an...
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tide or tidal harbour
A port which can only be entered at a certain time of flood.
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tide-ball
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tide-gate
A place where the tide runs strong.
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tide-gauge
An instrument contrived for measuring the height of the tides.
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tide-pool
A sort of basin worn in seaside rocks.
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tide-rip
Those short ripplings which result from eddies, or the passage of the tide over uneven bottom; also ...
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tide-rode
The situation of a vessel at anchor when she swings by the force of the tide. In opposition to wind-...
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tide-way
The mid-stream; or a passage or channel through which the tide sets, and runs strongly.
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true tide
Opposed to cross-tide (which see).
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weather-tide
The reverse of lee-tide. That which, running contrary to the direction of the wind, by setting again...
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windward tide
See weather-tide.
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Low, Sidney James
Journalist and miscellaneous writer. The Governance of England (1904), A Vision of India (1906), Dic...
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low and aloft
Sail from deck to truck: "every stitch on her."
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across the tide
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athwart the tide
See across the tide.
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ebb of tide
See falling tide
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half-tide rocks
Those showing their heads at half-ebb. (See tide.)
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tide, ebb of
The falling tide.
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velocity of tide or current
, depends on several circumstances. First, the tide varies with the state of the moon, running stron...
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fluctuation of the tide
The rising and falling of the waters.
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strength of the tide
Where it runs strongest, which in serpentine courses will be found in the hollow curves.
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turn of the tide
The change from ebb to flood, or the contrary.
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