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Tripping :: Tripping (n.) The loosing of an anchor from the ground by means of its cable or buoy rope.

Levitation :: Levitation (n.) The act or process of making buoyant.

Lightness :: Lightness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

-ancy :: -ancy () A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy..

Levitate :: Levitate (v. i.) To rise, or tend to rise, as if lighter than the surrounding medium; to become buoyant; -- opposed to gravitate..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel..

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits..

Buoyed :: Buoyed (imp. & p. p.) of Buo.

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits..

Floaty :: Floaty (a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

Insubmergible :: Insubmergible (a.) Not capable of being submerged; buoyant.

Volatile :: Volatile (a.) Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly..

Life-preserver :: Life-preserver (n.) An apparatus, made in very various forms, and of various materials, for saving one from drowning by buoying up the body while in the water..

Buoyage :: Buoyage (n.) Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys..

Lanyard :: Lanyard (n.) A short piece of rope or line for fastening something in ships; as, the lanyards of the gun ports, of the buoy, and the like; esp., pieces passing through the dead-eyes, and used to extend shrouds, stays, etc..

Upbuoyance :: Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting.

Jetson :: "Jetson (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy..

Montgolfier :: Montgolfier (n.) A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon..

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