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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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..
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..
Stage :: Stage (n.) A platform, often floating, serving as a kind of wharf..
Floatingly :: Floatingly (adv.) In a floating manner.
Floe :: Floe (n.) A low, flat mass of floating ice..
Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..
Navigerous :: Navigerous (a.) Bearing ships; capable of floating vessels.
Mote :: Mote (n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck..
Frogbit :: Frogbit (n.) A European plant (Hydrocharis Morsus-ranae), floating on still water and propagating itself by runners. It has roundish leaves and small white flowers..
Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
Natantly :: Natantly (adv.) In a floating manner; swimmingly.
Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Superfluities :: Superfluitant (a.) Floating above or on the surface.
Sea Apple :: Sea apple () The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea..
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..
Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.
Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..
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..
Floss :: Floss (n.) Fluid glass floating on iron in the puddling furnace, produced by the vitrification of oxides and earths which are present..
Hover :: Hover (v. i.) To hang fluttering in the air, or on the wing; to remain in flight or floating about or over a place or object; to be suspended in the air above something..
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