Definition of float

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Float (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor..

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Floaty :: Floaty (a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.
Floatage :: Floatage (n.) Same as Flotage.
Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..
Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.
Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..
Frontiersmen :: Frontiersmen (pl. ) of Floatiersma.
Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..
Swim :: Swim (v. t.) To immerse in water that the lighter parts may float; as, to swim wheat in order to select seed..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor..
Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..
Boom :: Boom (n.) A line of connected floating timbers stretched across a river, or inclosing an area of water, to keep saw logs, etc., from floating away..
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..
Float :: Float (v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish..
Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Dobber :: Dobber (n.) A float to a fishing line.
Siphonophora :: Siphonophora (n. pl.) An order of pelagic Hydrozoa including species which form complex free-swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds, some of which act as floats or as swimming organs, others as feeding or nutritive zooids, and others as reproductive zooids. See Illust. under Physallia, and Porpita..
Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.
Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..
Balsa :: Balsa (n.) A raft or float, used principally on the Pacific coast of South America..
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