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Vessel :: Vessel (n.) A general name for any hollow structure made to float upon the water for purposes of navigation; especially, one that is larger than a common rowboat; as, a war vessel; a passenger vessel..

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

Tide :: Tide (v. t.) To cause to float with the tide; to drive or carry with the tide or stream.

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

Careen :: Careen (v. t.) To cause (a vessel) to lean over so that she floats on one side, leaving the other side out of water and accessible for repairs below the water line; to case to be off the keel..

Whirlpool :: Whirlpool (n.) An eddy or vortex of water; a place in a body of water where the water moves round in a circle so as to produce a depression or cavity in the center, into which floating objects may be drawn; any body of water having a more or less circular motion caused by its flowing in an irregular channel, by the coming together of opposing currents, or the like..

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

Afloat :: Afloat (adv. & a.) Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat..

Float :: Float (v. i.) A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

Corpuscle :: Corpuscle (n.) A protoplasmic animal cell; esp., such as float free, like blood, lymph, and pus corpuscles; or such as are imbedded in an intercellular matrix, like connective tissue and cartilage corpuscles. See Blood..

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

Porpita :: Porpita (n.) A genus of bright-colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean. The individuals are round and disk-shaped, with a large zooid in the center of the under side, surrounded by smaller nutritive and reproductive zooids, and by slender dactylozooids near the margin. The disk contains a central float, or pneumatocyst..

Pad :: Pad (n.) A floating leaf of a water lily or similar plant.

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

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

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

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

Feather :: Feather (n.) The angular adjustment of an oar or paddle-wheel float, with reference to a horizontal axis, as it leaves or enters the water..

Fund :: Fund (v. t.) To put into the form of bonds or stocks bearing regular interest; as, to fund the floating debt..

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..

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