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Displacement :: Displacement (n.) The quantity of anything, as water, displaced by a floating body, as by a ship, the weight of the displaced liquid being equal to that of the displacing body..

Floatingly :: Floatingly (adv.) In a floating manner.

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

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

Floss :: Floss (n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present..

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.

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

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

Fluctuant :: Fluctuant (a.) Floating on the waves.

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

Levity :: Levity (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contiguous substance; buoyancy; -- opposed to gravity..

Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The science of floating bodies.

Floating :: Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air..

Barnacle :: Barnacle (n.) Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks, floating timber, ships, etc., esp. (a) the sessile species (genus Balanus and allies), and (b) the stalked or goose barnacles (genus Lepas and allies). See Cirripedia, and Goose barnacle..

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

Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..

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

Floating :: Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above..

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

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