Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Night-time.
  • noun A tide occurring at night.

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Examples

  • Remember me most kindly to him, and hoping you will keep out of bed, except duly at night-tide.

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • Ho thou dove, who passest night-tide in calling on thy fere,

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But as for that matter of changing of aspect, the maiden came to know thereafter that the witch durst not go into the wood in the same skin as that which she wore at home, wherefore she had changed it for the journey to Utterhay, and changed back again in the night-tide before she arose.

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

    Edgar Allan Poe Divers 2007

  • Tell me, fair child, sawest thou ever here at night-tide the shape of a youngling crowned with a garland straying about the house?

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

    "Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe. Jeff 2006

  • And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side

    Archive 2006-07-01 Jeff 2006

  • We had come in with the night-tide to Douglas Harbor, and, as soon as the post-office was open; Allan, by my advice, sent on shore for letters.

    Armadale 2003

  • An 'the shore-lights flashin', an 'the night-tide dashin',

    Drake's Drum 1998

  • With regard to their modern practice of playing during the night-tide, we find the following explanation in an _Essay on the Musical Waits at

    A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

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