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Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

Floatage :: Floatage (n.) Same as Flotage.

Ashore :: Ashore (adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.

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

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..

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.

Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..

Natant :: Natant (a.) Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants..

Floater :: Floater (n.) One who floats or swims.

Water Lily :: Water lily () A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea..

Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..

Neaped :: Neaped (a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n..

Floating :: Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floa.

Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.

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

Lepas :: 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..

Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..

Gossamer :: Gossamer (n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders..

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