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

Floating :: Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

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

Dahabeah :: Dahabeah (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails..

Car :: Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.

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

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

Floater :: Floater (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

Jetson :: "Jetson (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy..

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

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

Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

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

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..

Draff :: Draff (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

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..

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..

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

Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

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