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Sea Apple :: Sea apple () The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea..

Ride :: Ride (v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

Boom :: Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away..

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

Float :: Float (v. i.) A coal cart.

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

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..

Moted :: Moted (a.) Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air..

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

Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

Pad :: Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

Catamaran :: Catamaran (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations..

Water Line :: Water line () Any one of several lines marked upon the outside of a vessel, corresponding with the surface of the water when she is afloat on an even keel. The lowest line indicates the vessel's proper submergence when not loaded, and is called the light water line; the highest, called the load water line, indicates her proper submergence when loaded..

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

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

Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.

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

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..

Refloat :: Refloat (n.) Reflux; ebb.

Float :: Float (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor..

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