EAGRE (a word of obscure origin; the earliest form seems to be higre, Latinized as higra, which William of Malmesbury gives as the name of the bore in the Severn; the New English Dictionary rejects the usual derivations from the O. Eng. eagor or egor, whi

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EAGRE (a word of obscure origin; the earliest form seems to be higre, Latinized as higra, which William of Malmesbury gives as the name of the bore in the Severn; the New English Dictionary rejects the usual derivations from the O. Eng. eagor or egor, whi ch is seen in compounds meaning " flood," and also the connexion with the Norse sea-god Aegir), a

tide

TIDE (O. Eng. lid, cf. Ger. Zeit,
time
- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the
  root
  - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
  - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
  also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
or
season
- SEASON (0. Fr. seson, seison, mod. saison, Lat. satio,
  sowing
  - SOWING (from "to sow," O. Eng. shwan, cf. Du. zaaijen, Ger. saen, &c.; the
    root
    - ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
    - ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )
    is seen in Lat. severe, cf. "seed")
  time, the spring, from serere, to sow; in Late Lat. the word is found with its
  present
  - PRESENT
  meaning, the spring being considered as particularly the season of the year)
, connected with root of Sanskrit a-diti, endless)

wave

WAVE

great

GREAT

height rushing up an

estuary

ESTUARY (from the Lat. aestuarium, a place reached by aestus, the tide)

(see

BoRE

BORE

), used locally of the Humber and Trent.

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