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

Float :: Float (v. i.) A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

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

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

Podoscaph :: Podoscaph (n.) A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water..

Displacement :: Displacement (n.) The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body..

Careen :: Careen (v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel..

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.

Fly :: Fly (v. t.) To cause to fly or to float in the air, as a bird, a kite, a flag, etc..

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel..

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits..

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

Wave :: Wave (v. i.) To play loosely; to move like a wave, one way and the other; to float; to flutter; to undulate..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..

Cymophanous :: Cymophanous (a.) Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant..

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..

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