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- English Word Buoy Definition To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
- English Word Buoy Definition To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.
- English Word Buoy Definition To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.
- English Word Buoy Definition To float; to rise like a buoy.
- English Word Buoyage Definition Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
- English Word Buoyance Definition Buoyancy.
- English Word Buoyancies Definition of Buoyancy
- English Word Buoyancy Definition The property of floating on the surface of a liquid, or in a fluid, as in the atmosphere; specific lightness, which is inversely as the weight compared with that of an equal volume of water.
- English Word Buoyancy Definition 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.
- English Word Buoyancy Definition Cheerfulness; vivacity; liveliness; sprightliness; -- the opposite of heaviness; as, buoyancy of spirits.
- English Word Buoyant Definition Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid; tending to rise or float; as, iron is buoyant in mercury.
- English Word Buoyant Definition Bearing up, as a fluid; sustaining another body by being specifically heavier.
- English Word Buoyant Definition Light-hearted; vivacious; cheerful; as, a buoyant disposition; buoyant spirits.
- English Word Buoyed Definition of Buoy
- English Word Buoying Definition of Buoy
- English Word Buprestidan Definition One of a tribe of beetles, of the genus Buprestis and allied genera, usually with brilliant metallic colors. The larvae are usually borers in timber, or beneath bark, and are often very destructive to trees.
- English Word Bur Definition Alt. of Burr
- English Word Bur fish Definition A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
- English Word Bur marigold Definition See Beggar's ticks.
- English Word Burbolt Definition A birdbolt.
- English Word Burbot Definition A fresh-water fish of the genus Lota, having on the nose two very small barbels, and a larger one on the chin.
- English Word Burdelais Definition A sort of grape.
- English Word Burden Definition That which is borne or carried; a load.
- English Word Burden Definition That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome, or oppressive.
- English Word Burden Definition The capacity of a vessel, or the weight of cargo that she will carry; as, a ship of a hundred tons burden.
- English Word Burden Definition The tops or heads of stream-work which lie over the stream of tin.
- English Word Burden Definition The proportion of ore and flux to fuel, in the charge of a blast furnace.
- English Word Burden Definition A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as, a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
- English Word Burden Definition A birth.
- English Word Burden Definition To encumber with weight (literal or figurative); to lay a heavy load upon; to load.