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Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..

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

Flotage :: Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.

Stream :: Stream (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it..

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

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Wood drifted or floated by water.

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

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

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

Whirlpool :: Whirlpool (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

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

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel..

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

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

Draught :: Draught (n.) The depth of water necessary to float a ship, or the depth a ship sinks in water, especially when laden; as, a ship of twelve feet draught..

Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.

Float :: Float (v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep..

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