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Ladle :: Ladle (v. t.) The float of a mill wheel; -- called also ladle board.

Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.

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

Float :: Float (v. t.) To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor..

Hang :: Hang (v. i.) To be suspended or fastened to some elevated point without support from below; to dangle; to float; to rest; to remain; to stay.

Floating :: Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A float board. See Float board (below).

Backboard :: Backboard (n.) A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel.

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..

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..

Physophorae :: Physophorae (n. pl.) An order of Siphonophora, furnished with an air sac, or float, and a series of nectocalyces. See Illust. under Nectocalyx..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft..

Draw :: Draw (v. i.) To sink in water; to require a depth for floating.

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

Ligger :: Ligger (n.) A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing. See Leger, a..

Floating :: Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt..

Float :: Float (v. t.) To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

Turbine :: Turbine (n.) A water wheel, commonly horizontal, variously constructed, but usually having a series of curved floats or buckets, against which the water acts by its impulse or reaction in flowing either outward from a central chamber, inward from an external casing, or from above downward, etc.; -- also called turbine wheel..

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..

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

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