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Trip :: Trip (v. t.) To raise (an anchor) from the bottom, by its cable or buoy rope, so that it hangs free..

Levitation :: Levitation (n.) Lightness; buoyancy; act of making light.

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

Insubmergible :: Insubmergible (a.) Not capable of being submerged; buoyant.

Montgolfier :: Montgolfier (n.) A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon..

Upbuoyance :: Upbuoyance (n.) The act of buoying up; uplifting.

Buoy :: Buoy (v. t.) To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up..

Float :: Float (v. i.) Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

-ancy :: -ancy () A suffix expressing more strongly than -ance the idea of quality or state; as, constancy, buoyancy, infancy..

Waft :: Waft (v. i.) To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float..

Buoy :: Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

Buoyage :: Buoyage (n.) Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys..

Buoy :: Buoy (n.) A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc..

Lifeboat :: Lifeboat (n.) A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people..

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..

Buoying :: Buoying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buo.

Deadhead :: Deadhead (n.) A buoy. See under Dead, a..

Floaty :: Floaty (a.) Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

Levitate :: Levitate (v. t.) To make buoyant; to cause to float in the air; as, to levitate a table..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) To cause to float; to keep from sinking; to buoy.

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