springtide

noun

1. (literary, poetic)The springtime.

   “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!”

   “'T is warbled by the bird / Whose springtide voice is heard; / 'T is told throughout the vale / By fragrance we inhale; / While every verdant lawn / Reveals it to the dawn.”

   “Fair now is the springtide, now earth lies beholding / With the eyes of a lover, the face of the sun; / Long lasteth the daylight, and hope is enfolding / The green-growing acres with increase begun.”

   “Have ye no springtide, and no burst of May / In flowers and leafy trees, when solemn night / Pants with love-music, and the holy day / Breaks on the ear with songs of heavenly light?”

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

   “[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.”

   “At springtide the sun and moon, in conjunction or opposition, are on the meridian at noon and midnight, and it is to be expected that the mean time of high water then would be at noon or midnight, or thereabouts, but instead of this the tide then is at high water at 6.15.”

   “I could not help remarking that it seemed to me to be a very poor time to think of grounding the ships. We were coming up to the neap, or low, tide of the fortnight. Would it not be better, I asked, to wait for the springtide? Gordon nodded but did not seem concerned.”

   “The highest value of K = 3.72 was obtained for neap tidal flow through the Town Creek cross section. The lowest values, K = 1.45 and 1.83, were obtained for Jones Creek and Town Creek, respectively, when the North Inlet tidal prism was augmented by flow from Winyah Bay during mean tide and springtide.”