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Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.

Vapor :: Vapor (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc..

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..

Feather :: Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water..

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

Jacana :: "Jacana (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird..

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

Mist :: Mist (n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist..

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

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

Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..

Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

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

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..

Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To cause or compel to swim; to make to float; as, to swim a horse across a river..

Seine :: Seine (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish..

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

Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The act, process, or state of floating..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler..

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

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