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

Bowgrace :: Bowgrace (n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice..

Precipitate :: Precipitate (n.) An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface..

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

Balsa :: Balsa (n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America..

Displacement :: Displacement (n.) The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body..

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

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..

Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

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

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..

Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.

Wave :: Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft..

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

Floated :: Floated (imp. & p. p.) of Floa.

Swim :: Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

Water Lettuce :: Water lettuce () A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves..

Floatiersman :: Floatiersman (n.) A man living on the frontier.

Raft :: Raft (n.) A collection of logs, boards, pieces of timber, or the like, fastened together, either for their own collective conveyance on the water, or to serve as a support in conveying other things; a float..

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

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