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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float.

2. (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

3. (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.

4. (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.

5. (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

6. (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

Strong's Hebrew

7642. shabluwl -- a snail
... snail From the same as shebel; a snail (as if floating in its own slime) -- snail.
see HEBREW shebel. 7641, 7642. shabluwl. 7642a . Strong's Numbers.
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Library

The Next Night Diamond was Seated by his Open Window...
... Her hair and her garments went floating away behind her over the tree,
whose top was swaying about while the others were still. ...
/.../macdonald/at the back of the north wind/chapter 37 the next night.htm

The Story of Moses, the Child who was Found in the River
... How anxious the mother and the sister were as they saw the little ark floating away
from them on the river! [Illustration: She placed her baby in the ark]. ...
/.../marshall/the wonder book of bible stories/the story of moses the.htm

The Night Bird: a Myth
... THE NIGHT BIRD: A MYTH. A floating, a floating Across the sleeping sea,
All night I heard a singing bird Upon the topmost tree. 'Oh ...
/.../kingsley/andromeda and other poems/the night bird a myth.htm

The Saviour's Last Command.
... They have sold to them guns, powder and rum. Many of their ships have been floating
grog-shops"floating exhibitions too of Sodom and Gomorrah. ...
/.../dibble/thoughts on missions/chapter iv the saviours last.htm

All the Bells were Ringing the Angelus. ...
... and from the many quaint and beautiful grey towers which crown the ancient city
of Rouen, the sacred chime pealed forth melodiously, floating with sweet and ...
//christianbookshelf.org/corelli/the master-christian/i all the bells were.htm

Outward Bound
... eddy, or central pool of the Atlantic, between the Gulf Stream and the equatorial
current, unmoved save by surface-drifts of wind, as floating weeds collect ...
//christianbookshelf.org/kingsley/at last/chapter i outward bound.htm

A Revival Sermon
... Hervey once said, "Each floating ship, a floating hell." Of all classes of men,
the sailor has been supposed to be the man least likely to be reached by the ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 6 1860/a revival sermon.htm

Marvellous Increase of the Church
... Up towards the north I flew; and my eye looked keenly through the mist and darkness,
if perhaps it might find some floating substance, on which my soul might ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 2 1856/marvellous increase of the church.htm

The Finding of Moses
... She knew that presently the great princess, Pharaoh's daughter, would come down
to bathe in the river, and would notice the queer little ark floating there. ...
/.../steedman/the babe in the bulrushes/the finding of moses.htm

Introductory Notice to Apocrypha of the New Testament.
... well says: "The method employed in these compositions is always the same, whether
the author intended simply to collect and arrange what was floating in the ...
/.../unknown/apocrypha of the new testament/introductory notice to apocrypha of.htm

Thesaurus

Floating (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float. 2. (a.) Buoyed upon or
in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. ...
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Ark (212 Occurrences)
... ark, a building of gopher-wood, and covered with pitch, 300 cubits long, 50 cubits
broad, and 30 cubits high (Genesis 6:14-16); an oblong floating house of ...
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Vapor (6 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) In a loose and popular sense, any visible diffused substance floating in
the atmosphere and impairing its transparency, as smoke, fog, etc. ...
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Bulrushes (3 Occurrences)
... Into this floating vessel the mother of Moses placed the boy when he was three months
old, and put the vessel in the water among the sedge along the banks of ...
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Draw (212 Occurrences)
... 18. (vt) To require (so great a depth, as of water) for floating; -- said of a vessel;
to sink so deep in (water); as, a ship draws ten feet of water. 19. ...
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Deluge (17 Occurrences)
... the anger of Bel (II. 146-50). (6) In all the accounts, the ark is represented
as floating up stream. According to Genesis, it was ...
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Noah (55 Occurrences)
... the anger of Bel (II. 146-50). (6) In all the accounts, the ark is represented
as floating up stream. According to Genesis, it was ...
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Vagabond (4 Occurrences)
... 2. (a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering. 3.
(a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro. ...
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Levity (2 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative
lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a ...
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Gossamer (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A fine, flimsy, sheer fabric or substance, like
cobwebs, floating in the air, in calm, clear weather, especially in autumn. ...
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Bible Concordance

Floating (1 Occurrence)

2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea.
(WEY)

Subtopics

Floating

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