Definition of float

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Float (v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft..

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Mote :: Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck..
Flotage :: Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.
Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel..
Tide :: Tide (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.
Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).
Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed..
Floaty :: Floaty (a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..
Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..
Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.
Rise :: Rise (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like..
Floater :: Floater (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..
Float :: Float (v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation..
Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..
Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water..
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