1. TID'DLE
2. TIDE, noun
3. Time; season.
4. Which, at the appointed tide,
5. Each one did make his bride.
6. [This sense is obsolete.]
7. 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.
8. Stream; course; current; as the tide of the times.
9. Time's ungentle tide.
10. Favorable course.
11. There is a tide in the affairs of men,
12. Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
13. Violent confluence. [Not in use.]
14. Among miners, the period of twelve hours.
15. Current; flow of blood.
16. And life's red tide runs ebbing from the wound.