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Levitate :: Levitate (v. t.) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table..

Lifeboat :: Lifeboat (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..

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

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

Can Buoy :: Can buoy () See under Buoy, n..

Buoyant :: 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..

Levitation :: Levitation (n.) Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..

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

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

Deadhead :: Deadhead (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a..

Ligan :: Ligan (n.) Goods sunk in the sea, with a buoy attached in order that they may be found again. See Jetsam and Flotsam..

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..

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water..

Levity :: Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity..

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier..

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

Waftage :: Waftage (n.) Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water..

Buoyance :: Buoyance (n.) Buoyancy.

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