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ˈnight-tide
[f. night n. + tide n. Cf. MLG. nachttîd, MHG. nahtzît (G. nachtzeit), MSw. nattatidh (Sw. and Da. nattetid).]
1. The time of night; night-time.
14..Sir Beues (M) 3819 As Sabere slepud a nyght tide, Hym thought he sye Beues ride. 1849Poe Annabel Lee vi, All the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling..my bride. 1887Morris Odyss. xii. 286 Ill too are the winds of the night-tide.
2. A tide of the sea occurring during the night.
1759Saunders in Beatson Nav. & Milit. Mem. (1790) II. 374 To proceed with the first fair wind and night-tide above the town of Quebec. 1776Cook in Phil. Trans. LXVI. 448 A notion..that the night-tide rises higher than the day-tide. 1853J. Stevenson tr. Beda's Eccl. Hist. 575 The night-tide of the ocean had drifted in a beam of wood. |