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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.

Flotage :: Flotage (n.) The state of floating.

Water Dog :: Water dog () A small floating cloud, supposed to indicate rain..

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. t.) To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation..

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

Water Shield :: Water shield () An aquatic American plant (Brasenia peltata) having floating oval leaves, and the covered with a clear jelly..

Podoscaph :: Podoscaph (n.) A canoe-shaped float attached to the foot, for walking on water..

Ashore :: Ashore (adv.) On shore or on land; on the land adjacent to water; to the shore; to the land; aground (when applied to a ship); -- sometimes opposed to aboard or afloat.

Fluctuant :: Fluctuant (a.) Floating on the waves.

#NAME? :: -tre (n.) The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium..

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

Drive :: Drive (n.) A collection of objects that are driven; a mass of logs to be floated down a river.

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

Floating :: Floating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Floa.

Bucket :: Bucket (n.) One of the receptacles on the rim of a water wheel into which the water rushes, causing the wheel to revolve; also, a float of a paddle wheel..

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

Buoy :: Buoy (v. i.) To float; to rise like a buoy.

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..

Floatation :: Floatation (n.) See Flotation.

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