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Slip :: Slip (n.) The motion of the center of resistance of the float of a paddle wheel, or the blade of an oar, through the water horozontally, or the difference between a vessel's actual speed and the speed which she would have if the propelling instrument acted upon a solid; also, the velocity, relatively to still water, of the backward current of water produced by the propeller..

Natation :: Natation (n.) The act of floating on the water; swimming.

Frontiersmen :: Frontiersmen (pl. ) of Floatiersma.

Sea Cocoa :: Sea cocoa () A magnificent palm (Lodoicea Sechellarum) found only in the Seychelles Islands. The fruit is an immense two-lobed nut. It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known, and called sea cocoanut, and double cocoanut..

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..

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..

Caisson :: Caisson (n.) A structure, usually with an air chamber, placed beneath a vessel to lift or float it..

Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.

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

Flotage :: Flotage (n.) That which floats on the sea or in rivers.

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

Float :: Float (v. i.) The sea; a wave. See Flote, n..

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..

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

Draff :: Draff (n.) Depth of water necessary to float a ship. See Draught.

Floatable :: Floatable (a.) That may be floated.

Physograde :: Physograde (n.) Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia..

Water Lettuce :: Water lettuce () A plant (Pistia stratiotes) which floats on tropical waters, and forms a rosette of spongy, wedge-shaped leaves..

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Borne on the water; floating; on board ship.

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

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