Vocabulary : Float to Floatingly

Float : Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something. ;; A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft. ;; The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler. ;; The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish. ;; Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver. ;; A float board. See Float board (below). ;; A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. ;; The act of flowing; flux; flow. ;; A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. ;; The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed. ;; A polishing block used in marble working; a runner. ;; A single-cut fil
Floatable : That may be floated.
Floatage : Same as Flotage.
Floatation : See Flotation.
Floated : of Float

Floater : One who floats or swims. ;; A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface. ;; A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable. ;; A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, who represents an irregular constituency, as one formed by a union of the voters of two counties neither of which has a number sufficient to be allowed a (or an extra) representative of its own. ;; A person who votes illegally in various polling places or election districts, either under false registration made by himself or under the name of some properly registered person who has not already voted.
Floatiersman : A man living on the frontier.
Floating : of Float ;; Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. ;; Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. ;; Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. ;; Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. ;; The second coat of three-coat plastering. ;; The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.
Floating charge : Alt. of lien
Floatingly : In a floating manner.