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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..

Drift :: Drift (v. i.) To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east..

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

Gossamer :: Gossamer (n.) A fine, filmy substance, like cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. It is seen in stubble fields and on furze or low bushes, and is formed by small spiders..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n..

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

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

Corpuscle :: Corpuscle (n.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood..

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..

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..

Floatage :: Floatage (n.) Same as Flotage.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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