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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

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..

Sludge :: Sludge (n.) Small floating pieces of ice, or masses of saturated snow..

Dummy :: Dummy (n.) A floating barge connected with a pier.

Flotation :: Flotation (n.) The act, process, or state of floating..

Floatingly :: Floatingly (adv.) In a floating manner.

Wave :: Wave (v. t.) To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft..

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

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

Car :: Car (n.) A floating perforated box for living fish.

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

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

Flushing :: Flushing (n.) A surface formed of floating threads.

Moted :: Moted (a.) Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air..

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

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..

Flotson :: Flotson (n.) Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson..

Waveson :: Waveson (n.) Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea..

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

Draw :: Draw (v. t.) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel; to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water..

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