Definition of float

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

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Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
Floating :: Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floa.
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..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
Bob :: Bob (n.) A small piece of cork or light wood attached to a fishing line to show when a fish is biting; a float.
Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.
Precipitate :: Precipitate (n.) An insoluble substance separated from a solution in a concrete state by the action of some reagent added to the solution, or of some force, such as heat or cold. The precipitate may fall to the bottom (whence the name), may be diffused through the solution, or may float at or near the surface..
Pneumatocyst :: Pneumatocyst (n.) A cyst or sac of a siphonophore, containing air, and serving as a float, as in Physalia..
Levity :: Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity..
#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..
Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.
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..
Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..
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..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To ascend or float in a fluid, as gases or vapors in air, cork in water, and the like..
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 212ยก Fah
Superfluities :: Superfluitant (a.) Floating above or on the surface.
Floater :: Floater (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
Flete :: Flete (v. i.) To float; to swim.
Natantly :: Natantly (adv.) In a floating manner; swimmingly.
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