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Float :: Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

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.

#NAME? :: -tre (n.) The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium..

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

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

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

Float :: Float (v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep..

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..

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..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).

Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..

Floating :: Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag..

Dobber :: Dobber (n.) A float to a fishing line.

Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..

Stanch :: Stanch (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release..

Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..

Iceberg :: Iceberg (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean..

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