This alternation between unhealthy activity and depression, this ebb and flow of the industrial.
A. T.
Hadley. Ebb
(Ebb) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Ebbed ; p. pr. & vb. n. Ebbing.] [AS. ebbian; akin to D. & G. ebben,
Dan. ebbe. See 2d Ebb.]
1. To flow back; to return, as the water of a tide toward the ocean; opposed to flow.
That Power who bids the ocean ebb and flow.
Pope. 2. To return or fall back from a better to a worse state; to decline; to decay; to recede.
The hours of life ebb fast.
Blackmore. Syn. To recede; retire; withdraw; decay; decrease; wane; sink; lower.
Ebb
(Ebb), v. t. To cause to flow back. [Obs.] Ford.
Ebb
(Ebb), a. Receding; going out; falling; shallow; low.
The water there is otherwise very low and ebb.
Holland. Ebb tide
(Ebb" tide`) The reflux of tide water; the retiring tide; opposed to flood tide.
Ebionite
(E"bi*o*nite) n. [Heb. ebyonim 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.
Ebionitism
(E"bi*o*ni`tism) n. (Eccl. Hist.) The system or doctrine of the Ebionites.
Eblanin
(Eb"la*nin) n. (Chem.) See Pyroxanthin.
Eblis
(Eb"lis) n. [Ar. iblis.] (Moham. Myth.) The prince of the evil spirits; Satan. [Written also Eblees.]
Ebon
(Eb"on) a.
1. Consisting of ebony.
2. Like ebony, especially in color; black; dark.
Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne.
Young. Ebon
(Eb"on), n. Ebony. [Poetic] "Framed of ebon and ivory." Sir W. Scott.
Ebonist
(Eb"on*ist) n. One who works in ebony.