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Meerschaum
A fine white claylike mineral soft and light enough when in dry masses to float in water It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor It is
Neaped
Left aground on the height of a spring tide so that it will not float till the next spring tide called also beneaped
Noria
A large water wheel turned by the action of a stream against its floats and carrying at its circumference buckets by which water is raised and discharged into a trough used in
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Physograde
Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float as the Physalia
Podoscaph
A canoe shaped float attached to the foot for walking on water
plate tectonics
the crust of the earth the lithosphere is divided into a small number of large separate plates which float and move slowly around on the more plastic asthenosphere breaking apart and moving away from each other at
Pneumatocyst
A cyst or sac of a siphonophore containing air and serving as a float as in Physalia
Pontoon
flat bottomed boat a metallic cylinder or a frame covered with canvas India rubber etc forming a portable float used in building bridges quickly for the passage of troops
Seine
A large net one edge of which is provided with sinkers and the other with floats It hangs vertically in the water and when its ends are brought together or drawn ashore incloses the
VerbarSiphonophora
which form complex free swimming communities composed of numerous zooids of various kinds some of which act as floats or as swimming organs others as feeding or nutritive zooids and others as reproductive zooids See Illust under
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