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Tide :: Tide (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

Draff :: Draff (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

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..

Neaped :: Neaped (a.) Left aground on the height of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped..

Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat..

Mote :: Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck..

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

Swim :: Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

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

Three-coat :: Three-coat (a.) Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat..

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

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..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A coal cart.

Floating :: Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt..

Live :: Live (v. i.) To outlast danger; to float; -- said of a ship, boat, etc.; as, no ship could live in such a storm..

Refloat :: Refloat (n.) Reflux; ebb.

Float :: Float (v. i.) The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

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