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

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

Jetson :: "Jetson (n.) Goods which sink when cast into the sea, and remain under water; -- distinguished from flotsam, goods which float, and ligan, goods which are sunk attached to a buoy..

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

Feather :: Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water..

Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Physophorae :: Physophorae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx..

Duckweed :: Duckweed (n.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat..

Floater :: Floater (n.) A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

Floatiersman :: Floatiersman (n.) A man living on the frontier.

Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..

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

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

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

Pack :: Pack (n.) A large area of floating pieces of ice driven together more or less closely.

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

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

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

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

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..

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