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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..

Supernatural :: Supernatation (n.) The act of floating on the surface of a fluid.

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel..

Paddle :: Paddle (v. i.) One of the broad boards, or floats, at the circumference of a water wheel, or paddle wheel..

Fly :: Fly (v. i.) To float, wave, or rise in the air, as sparks or a flag..

Launch :: Launch (v. i.) To cause to move or slide from the land into the water; to set afloat; as, to launch a ship..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A coal cart.

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

Canard :: Canard (n.) An extravagant or absurd report or story; a fabricated sensational report or statement; esp. one set afloat in the newspapers to hoax the public.

Float :: Float (v. i.) The act of flowing; flux; flow.

Swim :: Swim (v. i.) Fig.: To be as if borne or floating in a fluid.

Bubble :: Bubble (n.) A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

Float :: Float (v. i.) A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

Sluiceway :: Sluiceway (n.) An artificial channel into which water is let by a sluice; specifically, a trough constructed over the bed of a stream, so that logs, lumber, or rubbish can be floated down to some convenient place of delivery..

Supernatant :: Supernatant (a.) Swimming above; floating on the surface; as, oil supernatant on water..

Stream :: Stream (v. i.) To extend; to stretch out with a wavy motion; to float in the wind; as, a flag streams in the wind..

Breastwheel :: Breastwheel (n.) A water wheel, on which the stream of water strikes neither so high as in the overshot wheel, nor so low as in the undershot, but generally at about half the height of the wheel, being kept in contact with it by the breasting. The water acts on the float boards partly by impulse, partly by its weight..

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..

Pontoon :: Pontoon (n.) A wooden flat-bottomed boat, a metallic cylinder, or a frame covered with canvas, India rubber, etc., forming a portable float, used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops..

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