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spring·tide

(sprĭng′tīd′)

Springtime.

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Noun	1.	springtide - a swelling rush of anything; "he rose on the springtide of prosperity" gush, outpouring, flush - a sudden rapid flow (as of water); "he heard the flush of a toilet"; "there was a little gush of blood"; "she attacked him with an outpouring of words"
	2.	springtide - a greater than average tide occurring during the new and full moons high tide, high water, highwater - the tide when the water is highest neap, neap tide - a less than average tide occurring at the first and third quarters of the moon

springtide

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The season of the year during which the weather becomes warmer and plants revive:

seedtime, spring, springtime.

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And, to complete the whole, Haidee was in the very springtide and fulness of youthful charms -- she had not yet numbered more than twenty summers.

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They lingered in the park until sunset, living in the amazing miracle and glory and wonder of the springtide; and they went home as usual, by way of Spofford Avenue, that they might have the delight of looking at Patty's Place.

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Quoth Robin, "I understand not why those of thy kind live in such a manner that all their wealth passeth from them like snow beneath the springtide sun."

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Athanase was fond of this solitude, enlivened by the sparkling water, where the fields were the first to green under the earliest smiling of the springtide sun.

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The poems in the devotional section of The New Minnesinger follow an arc of belief, from gentle supplication and questioning doubt, to open challenge, and to a new pagan trust in the spiritual consolations of the natural world: "To me it is enough to know / The birds will wake and sing; / And the simple flowers of long ago / About my pathway spring" ("The Fresh Springtide," 3-6).

Before Michael Field: Katharine Bradley as "Arran Leigh"

Benedict, "a man past the springtide of life," had married his young nurse after a recuperative voyage together to Tahiti ("Cupid journeyed afar").

The calm before: morning in America

40, for String Orchestra Grieg Heartwoods 5/9/1926 Grieg-Bull Springtide 12/11/1940 Hadley, Henry Symphony no.

The Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago

Many species of intertidal crab display a rhythm of larval release wherein hatching occurs during springtide periods near the time of nocturnal high tide (Forward 1987).

Patterns of larval release by the Asian shore crab Hemigrapsus sanguineus (De Haan): periodicity at diel and tidal frequencies

Under the agreement Fiberdata will deliver and operate a Lucent SpringTide 7000 network node enabling data communication over several different modes, including xDSL, cable television and optical fibre.

Fiberdata to deliver network solution to Halmstads IT-nat

The Lucent IP Centrex solution incorporates the Lucent iMerge Centrex Feature Gateway (CFG), developed by Lucent subsidiary AG Communications Systems (www.agcs.com), and the SpringTide 7000 IP Service Switch.