Definition of floating

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

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Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..
Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..
Vapor :: Vapor (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc..
Moted :: Moted (a.) Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air..
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..
Bead Proof :: Bead proof () Among distillers, a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor, as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it; now ascertained by more accurate meters..
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..
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..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Rack :: Rack (n.) Thin, flying, broken clouds, or any portion of floating vapor in the sky..
#NAME? :: -tre (n.) The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium..
Miasma :: Miasma (n.) Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
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..
Flushing :: Flushing (n.) A surface formed of floating threads.
Dahabeah :: Dahabeah (n.) A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house, having large lateen sails..
Car :: Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.
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