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- Floating - p. pr. & vb. n. - of Float
- Floating - a. - Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
- Floating - a. - Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
- Floating - a. - Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
- Floating - n. - Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
- Floating - n. - The second coat of three-coat plastering.
- Floatingly - adv. - In a floating manner.
- Watch - v. i. - To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
- Rack - n. - Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky.
- Skim - v. t. - To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth.
- Porpita - n. - A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst.
- Pack - n. - A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.
- Mist - n. - Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.
- Cymophanous - a. - Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant.
- Swim - v. i. - Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
- Lepas - n. - Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle.
- Floating - a. - Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
- Buoyant - v. t. & i. - Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
- Miasma - n. - Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
- Sea cocoa - - A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut.
- Water dog - - A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain.
- -tre - n. - The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.
- Waveson - n. - Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
- Moted - a. - Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air.
- Pad - n. - A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
- Vapor - n. - In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
- Stive - n. - The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
- Stanch - n. - A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release.
- Duckweed - n. - A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat.
- Water lily - - A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea.
- Gallinule - n. - One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule (Gallinula galeata).
- Buoyancy - n. - The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced.
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