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- English Word Flitting Definition A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
- English Word Flitting Definition A removal from one habitation to another.
- English Word Flittingly Definition In a flitting manner.
- English Word Flitty Definition Unstable; fluttering.
- English Word Flix Definition Down; fur.
- English Word Flix Definition The flux; dysentery.
- English Word Flo Definition An arrow.
- English Word Float Definition 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.
- English Word Float Definition A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- English Word Float Definition The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
- English Word Float Definition The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
- English Word Float Definition Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
- English Word Float Definition A float board. See Float board (below).
- English Word Float Definition A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
- English Word Float Definition The act of flowing; flux; flow.
- English Word Float Definition A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
- English Word Float Definition The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
- English Word Float Definition A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- English Word Float Definition A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
- English Word Float Definition A coal cart.
- English Word Float Definition The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
- English Word Float Definition To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
- English Word Float Definition To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
- English Word Float Definition To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
- English Word Float Definition To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
- English Word Float Definition To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
- English Word Float Definition 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.
- English Word Floatable Definition That may be floated.
- English Word Floatage Definition Same as Flotage.
- English Word Floatation Definition See Flotation.