[f. TIDE v.2, or TIDE sb. + -ING1.]
† 1. The flowing or rising of the tide; also fig.
1593. B. Barnes, Parthenophil, Sonn. xli. 5. More than blessed was I, if one tiding Of female favour set mine heart afloat!
1639. G. Daniel, Ecclus. xii. 16. The gust of Sin, may Stir a Surly tiding, In Seas pacifique.
1654. R. Whitlock, Ζωοτομια, Pref. a v. Would you know (saith he) my manner of writing? it is a kind of voluntary Tiding of, not Pumping for; Notions flowing, not forced.
1675. E. Wilson, Spadacrene Dunelm., 21. No more of the River comes back again by tiding than what the Sea forc’d up at the time of its tiding.
b. attrib. Tiding time: in quot. fig.
1693. Paschall, in Phil. Trans., XVII. 816. The Fits generally lasted all the Tiding time, and then went off in gentle kindly Sweats in the Ebbs.
2. A sailing or drifting with the tide.
1681. T. Duseley, in Trans. Kilkenny Archæol. Soc., Ser. II. IV. 320. They very easily putt to sea…, a very small matter of tideing (if any) serves turne.
1711. W. Sutherland, Shipbuild. Assist., 164. Stream Anchor; which stops the Ship in tiding up a River.
1774. Pennant, Tour Scol. in 1772, 241. After tiding for three hours anchor in the Sound.
1817. Keatinge, Trav., II. 143. Some little advantage in point of position … with convenience of tiding up inland.
