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oil slick

A layer of oil floating on water usually petroleum or fuel oil which has leaked from a ship

oil spill

A layer of oil floating on water or covering the shoreline of a body of water usually petroleum which has leaked from an

Porpita

A genus of bright colored Siphonophora found floating in the warmer parts of the ocean The individuals are round and disk shaped with a large zooid

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Pus

yellowish white opaque creamy matter produced by the process of suppuration It consists of innumerable white nucleated cells floating in a clear liquid

Sandiver

A whitish substance which is cast up as a scum from the materials of glass in fusion and floating on the top is skimmed off called also glass gall

Public Works Loans Act, 1875 (English)

by s. 95 of the Housing Act, 1936 (26 Geo. 5 & 1 Edw. 8, c. 51); lighthouses, floating and other lights for the guidance of ships; buoys and beacons; mental hospitals of any county or borough

Sea cocoa

Sechellarum found only in the Seychelles Islands The fruit is an immense two lobed nut It was found floating in the Indian Ocean before the tree was known and called sea cocoanut and double cocoanut

Skim

To clear a liquid from scum or substance floating or lying thereon by means of a utensil that passes just beneath the surface as to skim milk

Believe and hope

hope' means 'to want and expect'; to look forward with expectation and desire.' 'Hope' is a wishful feeling floating on nebulous foams projected into the unknown future, the term 'believe', in the sense in which it is

Call

future calls on shares, Spencer v. Asworth, Partington & Co., (1925) 1 KB 589. See COMPANY and CONTRIBUTORY; FLOATING CHARGE and TABLE A. (Articles 11 to 16). 3. A Stock Exchange term for the right to buy

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