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Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The act, process, or state of floating..

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

Superfluities :: Superfluitant (a.) Floating above or on the surface.

Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..

Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

Supernatural :: Supernatation (n.) The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.

Gallinule :: Gallinule (n.) One of several wading birds, having long, webless toes, and a frontal shield, belonging to the family Rallidae. They are remarkable for running rapidly over marshes and on floating plants. The purple gallinule of America is Ionornis Martinica, that of the Old World is Porphyrio porphyrio. The common European gallinule (Gallinula chloropus) is also called moor hen, water hen, water rail, moor coot, night bird, and erroneously dabchick. Closely related to it is the Florida gallinule

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..

Natatory :: Natatory (a.) Adapted for swimming or floating; as, natatory organs..

Flushing :: Flushing (n.) A surface formed of floating threads.

Cymophanous :: Cymophanous (a.) Having a wavy, floating light; opalescent; chatoyant..

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

Water Lily :: Water lily () A blossom or plant of any species of the genus Nymphaea, distinguished for its large floating leaves and beautiful flowers. See Nymphaea..

Water Shield :: Water shield () An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly..

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..

Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

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

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..

Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..

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