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Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation..

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

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

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.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.

Miasma :: Miasma (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

Flete :: Flete (v. i.) To float; to swim.

Ligger :: Ligger (n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a..

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

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

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

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

Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..

Gallinule :: Gallinule (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule

Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed..

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..

Fluctuant :: Fluctuant (a.) Floating on the waves.

Tide :: Tide (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

Flotage :: Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.

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