Springtide

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The springtime. literary, poetic

    "The hawthorn is bursting in blossom, / The flowerets flush under our feet, / All round us life's pulses are throbbing;— / Sing, birdies, the Springtide to greet!"

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of spring tide. alt-of, alternative

    "[the Moon's] influence presses on the Earth's atmosphere and seas and the amount betwixt her attraction and her pressure accounts for the difference in the springtide at her full, (as compared with that of her change,) which is effected by the Earth's induction without the pressure of the Moon."

  3. 3
    a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons wordnet
  4. 4
    a swelling rush of anything wordnet

Synonyms

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greennessjuvenilityprimespringyouth

Example

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"All nature joined in rejoicing at the springtide, and Daphnis and Chloe, young and susceptible as they were, imitated whatever they saw or heard. Hearing the carols of the birds, they sang; at sight of the playful skipping of the lambs they danced; and in imitation of the bees they gathered flowers, some of which they placed in their bosoms, whilst with others they wove chaplets which they carried as offerings to the Nymphs."

Etymology

From spring + -tide.

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