† ˈmorrow-tide Obs.
Also 5 mortyde.
[Cf. morn-tide.]
= morningtide.
| c 1290 Beket 49 in S. Eng. Leg. 108 In þe morewe-tide heo weren i-souȝt. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 2895 Erly on þe morwe⁓tyde after þat þay were there, þe Amyral wolde no leng abyde bot þe Galwys let arere. c 1386 Chaucer Merch. T. 981 And so bifel, that brighte morwe-tyde, That [etc.]. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 1441 In þe mortyde þo, whenne hit was day. 1481 Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 37 It happed so that on a morow⁓tyde erly that grymbert my neuew was of wyne almost dronke. 1504 W. Atkynson tr. De Imitatione i. xx. 169 A mery euentyde foloweth a sory morow tyde. 1520 Myrr. our Ladye 13 In some chirches they say mattyns in the morow tyde. |