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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.

Swim :: Swim (v. i.) To be supported by water or other fluid; not to sink; to float; as, any substance will swim, whose specific gravity is less than that of the fluid in which it is immersed..

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

Downstream :: Downstream (adv.) Down the stream; as, floating downstream..

Vagabond :: Vagabond (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.

Stiver :: Stive (n.) The floating dust in flour mills caused by the operation or grinding.

Duckweed :: Duckweed (n.) A genus (Lemna) of small plants, seen floating in great quantity on the surface of stagnant pools fresh water, and supposed to furnish food for ducks; -- called also duckmeat..

Darby :: Darby (n.) A plasterer's float, having two handles; -- used in smoothing ceilings, etc..

Drag :: Drag (v. t.) The difference between the speed of a screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation under Drag, v. i., 3..

Jack :: "Jack (n.) A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also Jack tar, and Jack afloat..

Float :: Float (n.) To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air..

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs are all afloat..

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..

Ride :: Ride (v. i.) To be borne or in a fluid; to float; to lie.

Radeau :: Radeau (n.) A float; a raft.

Sandiver :: Sandiver (n.) A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall..

Stanch :: Stanch (n.) A flood gate by which water is accumulated, for floating a boat over a shallow part of a stream by its release..

Buoyancy :: Buoyancy (n.) The upward pressure exerted upon a floating body by a fluid, which is equal to the weight of the body; hence, also, the weight of a floating body, as measured by the volume of fluid displaced..

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..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A hollow floating box, usually of iron, which serves to close the entrances of docks and basins..

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