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Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced..

Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..

Floatingly :: Floatingly (adv.) In a floating manner.

Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..

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..

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..

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..

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

Floating :: Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.

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

Supernatant :: Supernatant (a.) Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water..

Bead Proof :: Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters..

Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

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

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water..

Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

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