Webster's Dictionary 1913

2188

Floatage

Float″age (?; 48), n. Same as Flotage.

2189

Floatation

Float‐a″tion (?), n. See Flotation.

2190

Floater

Float″er (?), n. 1. One who floats or swims.2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

2191

Floater (2)

Float″er. (Politics) (a) A voter who shifts from party to party, esp. one whose vote is purchasable. (b) A person, as a delegate to a convention or a member of a legislature, wh...

2192

Floating

Float″ing, a. 1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man...

2193

Floating (2)

Float″ing (?), n. 1. (Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.2. The second coat of three-coat plastering. Knight.

2194

Floating (3)

Float″ing, n. The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; — called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.

2195

Floating charge

{ Floating charge, lien, etc. } (Law) A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to di...

2196

Floatingly

Float″ing‐ly, adv. In a floating manner.

2197

Floaty

Float″y (?), a. Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.

2198

Flobert

Flo″bert (?), n.(Gun.) A small cartridge designed for target shooting; — sometimes called ball cap.Flobert rifle, a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.

2199

Floccillation

Floc′cil‐la″tion (?), n. [L. floccus a flock of wool. Cf. Flock of wool.] (Med.) A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology...

2200

Floccose

Floc‐cose″ (?), a. [L. floccosus. Cf. 2d Flock, n.] 1. Spotted with small tufts like wool. Wright.2. (Bot.) Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.

2201

Floccular

Floc″cu‐lar (?), a.(Anat.) Of or pertaining to the flocculus.

2202

Flocculate

Floc″cu‐late (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Flocculated; p. pr. & vb. n.Flocculating.] (Geol.) To aggregate into small lumps.

2203

Flocculate (2)

Floc″cu‐late (?), a.(Zoöl.) Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

2204

Flocculate (3)

Floc″cu‐late (?), v. t. To convert into floccules or flocculent aggregates; to make granular or crumbly; as, the flocculating of a soil improves its mechanical condition.When ap...

2205

Flocculation

Floc′cu‐la″tion (?), n.(Geol.) The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

2206

Floccule

Floc″cule (?), n. [See Flocculus.] 1. A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool.2. (Chem.) Specif.: A small particle of an insoluble substance fo...

2207

Flocculence

Floc″cu‐lence (?), n. The state of being flocculent.

2208

Flocculent

Floc″cu‐lent (?), a. [See Flock of wool.] 1. Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. Gray.2. (Zoöl.) Applied to the down of newly hatched or unfledged birds.

2209

Flocculent (2)

Floc″cu‐lent, a.(Chem.) Having a structure like shredded wool, as some precipitates.

2210

Flocculus

‖Floc″cu‐lus (?), n.; pl.Flocculi (#). [NL., dim. of L. floccus a lock or flock of wool.] (Anat.) A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; ...

2211

Floccus

‖Floc″cus (?), n.; pl.Flocci (#). 1. (Zoöl.) (a) The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals. (b) A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.2. (Bot.) A woolly filament ...

2212

Flock

Flock (?), n. [AS. flocc flock, company; akin to Icel. flokkr crowd, Sw. flock, Dan. flok; prob. orig. used of flows, and akin to E. fly. See Fly.] 1. A company or collection of...

2213

Flock (2)

Flock, v. i. [imp. & p. p.Flocked (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Flocking.] To gather in companies or crowds.Friends daily flock. Dryden.Flocking fowl(Zoöl.), the greater scaup duck.

2214

Flock (3)

Flock, v. t. To flock to; to crowd.Good fellows, trooping, flocked me so. Taylor (1609).