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Car :: Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.

Pus :: Pus (a.) The yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration. It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid.

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..

Iceberg :: Iceberg (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean..

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

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

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

Water Flannel :: Water flannel () A floating mass formed in pools by the entangled filaments of a European fresh-water alga (Cladophora crispata).

Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

Bowgrace :: Bowgrace (n.) A frame or fender of rope or junk, laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice..

Adrift :: Adrift (adv. & a.) Floating at random; in a drifting condition; at the mercy of wind and waves. Also fig.

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..

Dahabeah :: Dahabeah (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails..

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..

Flushing :: Flushing (n.) A surface formed of floating threads.

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

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

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

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..

Lepas :: Lepas (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle..

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