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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 322 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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NEAP , a word only used of tides in which the high-See also:

WATER

water See also:

mark is at its lowest, there being the least difference in level between high and See also:

low water, opposed to " See also:

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger. springer, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

spring tides " (see See also:

TIDE (O. Eng. lid, cf. Ger. Zeit, time or season, connected with root of Sanskrit a-diti, endless)

TIDE) . The word is obscure in origin . It appears in O .

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