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Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..

Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.

Fleet :: Fleet (n. & a.) To sail; to float.

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

Sea Cocoa :: 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..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.

Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..

Mote :: Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck..

Pack :: Pack (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

Superfluities :: Superfluitant (a.) Floating above or on the surface.

Buoy :: Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

Fluctuate :: Fluctuate (v. i.) To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).

Live :: Live (v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm..

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..

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