Floating - Law Dictionary Search Results

marine mine

naval forces access to certain areas of the sea usually near the shoreline Also called underwater mine and floating mine and previously referred to as a torpedo See torpedo2 a

Barnacle

Any cirriped crustacean adhering to rocks floating timber ships etc esp a the sessile species genus Balanus and allies and b the stalked or goose

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Among distillers a certain degree of strength in alcoholic liquor as formerly ascertained by the floating or sinking of glass globules of different specific gravities thrown into it now ascertained by more accurate meters

Bowgrace

or junk laid out at the sides or bows of a vessel to secure it from injury by floating ice

Buoy

A float esp a floating object moored to the bottom to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath

Buoyancy

The property of floating on the surface of a liquid or in a fluid as in the atmosphere specific lightness which is

Buoyant

Having the quality of rising or floating in a fluid tending to rise or float as iron is buoyant in mercury

Cymophanous

Having a wavy floating light opalescent chatoyant

Dahabeah

A Nile boat constructed on the model of a floating house having large lateen sails

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