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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Filtration :: Filtration (n.) The act or process of filtering; the mechanical separation of a liquid from the undissolved particles floating in it.
Water Dog :: Water dog () A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain..
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..
Drift :: Drift (v. t.) To drive or carry, as currents do a floating body..
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..
Buoyant :: Buoyant (v. t. & i.) Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury..
Melanaemia :: Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Pad :: Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.
Sea Apple :: Sea apple () The fruit of a West Indian palm (Manicaria Plukenetii), often found floating in the sea..
Swim :: Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.
Supernatural :: Supernatation (n.) The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.
Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
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..
Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The act, process, or state of floating..
Skim :: Skim (v. t.) To clear (a liquid) from scum or substance floating or lying thereon, by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface; as, to skim milk; to skim broth..
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..
Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.
Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..
Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.
Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.
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