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adv.
In a floating manner.
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.
n.
Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
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Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
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Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
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To pass off in fumes, or as a moist, floating substance, whether visible or invisible, to steam; to be exhaled; to evaporate.
v. i.
To serve the purpose of a watchman by floating properly in its place; -- said of a buoy.
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Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
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Having or consisting of three coats; -- applied to plastering which consists of pricking-up, floating, and a finishing coat; or, as called in the United States, a scratch coat, browning, and finishing coat.
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Goods which, after shipwreck, appear floating on the waves, or sea.
v. t.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
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A whitish substance which is cast up, as a scum, from the materials of glass in fusion, and, floating on the top, is skimmed off; -- called also glass gall.
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In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc.
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Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
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