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Danaide :: Danaide (n.) A water wheel having a vertical axis, and an inner and outer tapering shell, between which are vanes or floats attached usually to both shells, but sometimes only to one..

Lepas :: Lepas (n.) Any one of various species of Lepas, a genus of pedunculated barnacles found attached to floating timber, bottoms of ships, Gulf weed, etc.; -- called also goose barnacle. See Barnacle..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep..

Floating :: Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

Watch :: Watch (v. i.) To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.

Iceberg :: Iceberg (n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean..

Superfluities :: Superfluitant (a.) Floating above or on the surface.

Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.

Seine :: Seine (n.) A large net, one edge of which is provided with sinkers, and the other with floats. It hangs vertically in the water, and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the fish..

Meerschaum :: Meerschaum (n.) A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite..

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

Catamaran :: Catamaran (n.) A kind of raft or float, consisting of two or more logs or pieces of wood lashed together, and moved by paddles or sail; -- used as a surf boat and for other purposes on the coasts of the East and West Indies and South America. Modified forms are much used in the lumber regions of North America, and at life-saving stations..

Float :: Float (v. i.) The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish..

Noria :: Noria (n.) A large water wheel, turned by the action of a stream against its floats, and carrying at its circumference buckets, by which water is raised and discharged into a trough; used in Arabia, China, and elsewhere for irrigating land; a Persian wheel..

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

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

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.

Driftwood :: Driftwood (n.) Fig.: Whatever is drifting or floating as on water.

Ambergris :: Ambergris (n.) A substance of the consistence of wax, found floating in the Indian Ocean and other parts of the tropics, and also as a morbid secretion in the intestines of the sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus), which is believed to be in all cases its true origin. In color it is white, ash-gray, yellow, or black, and often variegated like marble. The floating masses are sometimes from sixty to two hundred and twenty-five pounds in weight. It is wholly volatilized as a white vapor at 212� Fah

Feather :: Feather (v. i.) To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or feathers; as, the cream feathers.

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