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Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..

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..

Mist :: Mist (n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist..

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

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

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

Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury..

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

Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..

Sandiver :: Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall..

Jacana :: "Jacana (n.) Any of several wading birds belonging to the genus Jacana and several allied genera, all of which have spurs on the wings. They are able to run about over floating water weeds by means of their very long, spreading toes. Called also surgeon bird..

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

Moted :: Moted (a.) Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air..

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

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

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..

Miasma :: Miasma (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

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

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

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