a. Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low. [ 1913 Webster ]
The water there is otherwise very low and ebb. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
The hours of life ebb fast. Blackmore.
n. (Zoöl.) The European bunting. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ AS. ebba; akin to Fries. ebba, D. eb, ebbe, Dan. & G. ebbe, Sw. ebb, cf. Goth. ibuks backward; prob. akin to E. even. ]
Thou shoreless flood which in thy ebb and flow
Claspest the limits of morality! Shelley. [ 1913 Webster ]
Painting was then at its lowest ebb. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]
Ebb and flow,
This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial. A. T. Hadley. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. To cause to flow back. [ Obs. ] Ford. [ 1913 Webster ]
The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; -- opposed to
n. [ acronym from Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. ] (Computers) a 8-bit code for representing alphanumerical information in a digital information storage medium. It was used expecially on IBM mainframes, and differed substantially from the ASCII code. [ acronym ] [ PJC ]
n. [ Heb. ebyonīm poor people. ] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of heretics, in the first centuries of the church, whose doctrine was a mixture of Judaism and Christianity. They denied the divinity of Christ, regarding him as an inspired messenger, and rejected much of the New Testament. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Eccl. Hist.) The system or doctrine of the Ebionites. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Chem.) See Pyroxanthin. [ 1913 Webster ]