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

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation..

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

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..

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

Logrolling :: Logrolling (n.) The act or process of rolling logs from the place where they were felled to the stream which floats them to the sawmill or to market. In this labor neighboring camps of loggers combine to assist each other in turn.

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

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

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

Flete :: Flete (v. i.) To float; to swim.

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

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

Bowgrace :: Bowgrace (n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice..

Refloat :: Refloat (n.) Reflux; ebb.

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

Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..

Pontoon :: Pontoon (n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops..

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.

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..

Lepas :: Lepas (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle..

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