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Neaped :: Neaped (a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped..

Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

Boom :: Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away..

Vapor :: Vapor (n.) To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel..

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

Fluctuate :: Fluctuate (v. i.) To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air..

Floating :: Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floa.

Draught :: Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught..

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

Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..

Ambergris :: Ambergris (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212¡ Fah

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

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.

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

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..

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

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..

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