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<p><b>4.</b> <def>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.</def>

<h1>Floatable</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Float"a*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>That may be floated.</def>

<h1>Floatage</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Float"age</hw> <tt>(?; 48)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Flotage</er>.</def>

<h1>Floatation</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Float*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt><def>See <er>Flotation</er>.</def>

<h1>Floater</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Float"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>One who floats or swims.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.</def>

<h1>Floating</h1> <Xpage=571>

<hw>Float"ing</hw>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the <i>floating</i> timbers of a wreck; <i>floating</i> motes in the air.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Free or lose from the usual attachment; <as>as, the <ex>floating</ex> ribs in man and some other animals</as>.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; <as>as, <ex>floating</ex> capital; a <ex>floating</ex> debt.</as></def>

<blockquote>Trade was at an end. <b>Floating</b> capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<cs><col>Floating anchor</col> <fld>(Naut.)</fld>, <cd>a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.</cd> -- <col>Floating battery</col> <fld>(Mil.)</fld>, <cd>a battery erected on rafts or the hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the bombardment of a place.</cd> -- <col>Floating bridge</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau bridge.</cd> See <er>Bateau</er>. <sd>(b)</sd> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <cd>A kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys; -- used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.</cd> <sd>(c)</sd> <cd>A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by means of chains which are anchored on each side of a stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels being driven by stream power.</cd> <sd>(d)</sd> <cd>The landing platform of a ferry dock.</cd> -- <col>Floating cartilage</col> <fld>(Med.)</fld>, <cd>a cartilage which moves freely in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the functions of the latter.</cd> -- <col>Floating dam</col>. <sd>(a)</sd> <cd>An anchored dam.</cd> <sd>(b)</sd> <cd>A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.</cd> -- <col>Floating derrick</col>, <cd>a derrick on a float for river and harbor use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor improvements, etc.</cd> -- <col>Floating dock</col>. <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <cd>See under <er>Dock</er>.</cd> -- <col>Floating harbor</col>, <cd>a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships riding at anchor to leeward.</cd> <i>Knight.</i> -- <col>Floating heart</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>a small aquatic plant (<spn>Limnanthemum lacunosum</spn>) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water of American ponds.</cd> -- <col>Floating island</col>, <cd>a dish for dessert, consisting of custard with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.</cd> -- <col>Floating kidney</col>. <fld>(Med.)</fld> <cd>See <cref>Wandering kidney</cref>, under <er>Wandering</er>.</cd> -- <col>Floating light</col>, <cd>a light shown at the masthead of a vessel moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy or floating stage.</cd> -- <col>Floating liver</col>. <fld>(Med.)</fld> <cd>See <cref>Wandering liver</cref>, under <er>Wandering</er>.</cd> -- <col>Floating pier</col>, <cd>a landing stage or pier which rises and falls with the tide.</cd> -- <col>Floating ribs</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the lower or posterior ribs which are not connected with the others in front; in man they are the last two pairs.</cd> -- <col>Floating screed</col> <fld>(Plastering)</fld>, <cd>a strip of plastering first laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the coat.</cd> -- <col>Floating threads</col> <fld>(Weaving)</fld>, <cd>threads which span several other threads without being interwoven with them, in a woven fabric.</cd></cs>

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<h1>Floating</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Float"ing</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <fld>(Weaving)</fld> <def>Floating threads. See <cref>Floating threads</cref>, above.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The second coat of three-coat plastering.</def>

<i>Knight.</i>

<h1>Floatingly</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Float"ing*ly</hw>, <tt>adv.</tt> <def>In a floating manner.</def>

<h1>Floaty</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Float"y</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.</def>

<i>Sir W. Raleigh.</i>

<h1>Flobert</h1> <Xpage=572>

<hw>Flo"bert</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Gun.)</fld> <def>A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called <altname>ball cap</altname>.</def>