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Flo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

An arrow. [Not in use.]

Flo [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Float [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. That which swims or is borne on water; as a float of weeds and rushes. But particularly, a body or collection of timber, boards or planks fastened together and conveyed down a stream; a raft. [The latter word is more generally used in the United States.]

2. The cork or quill used on an angling line, to support it and discover the bite of a fish.

3. The act of flowing; flux; flood; the primary sense, but obsolete.

4. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one deep.

5. A wave. [Latin fuctus.]

Float [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To be borne or sustained on the surface of a fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up; not to sink; not to be aground. We say, the water is so shallow, the ship will not float

2. To move or be conveyed on water; to swim. The raft floats down the river.

3. Three blustering nights, borne by the southern blast, I floated.

4. To be buoyed up and moved or conveyed in a fluid, as in air.

5. They stretch their plumes and float upon the wind.

6. To move with a light irregular course.

Float [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To cause to pass by swimming; to cause to be conveyed on water. The tide floated the ship into the harbor.

2. To flood; to inundate; to overflow; to cover with water.

3. Proud Pactolus floats the fruitful lands.

Float [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.

2. To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.

Float [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.

2. A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.

3. The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.

4. The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.

5. Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.

6. A float board. See Float board (below).

7. A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.

8. The act of flowing; flux; flow.

9. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.

10. The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.

11. A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.

12. A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

13. A coal cart.

14. The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.

Float [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.

2. To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.

3. To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.

4. To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.

Float-board [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A board of the water-wheel of undershot mills, which receives the impulse of the stream, by which the wheel is driven.

Floatable [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

That may be floated.

Floatage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Any thing that floats on the water.

Floatage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Flotage.

Floatation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Flotation.

Floated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Flooded; overflowed.

2. Borne on water.

Floated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Floater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

One that floats or swims.

Floater [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who floats or swims.

2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.

Floatiersman [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A man living on the frontier.

Floating [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Swimming; conveying on water; overflowing.

2. Lying flat on the surface of the water; as a floating leaf.

Floating [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 and some other animals.

3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.

Floating [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.

2. The second coat of three-coat plastering.

Floating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Floating-bridge [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In the United States, a bridge, consisting of logs or timber with a floor of plank, supported wholly by the water.

2. In war, a kind of double bridge, the upper one projecting beyond the lower one, and capable of being moved forward by pulleys, used for carrying troops over narrow moats in attacking the outworks of a fort.

Floatingly [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a floating manner.

Floatstone [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Swimming flint, spungiform quartz, a mineral of a spungy texture, of a whitish gray color, often with a tinge of yellow. It frequently contains a nucleus of common flint.

Floaty [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Buoyant; swimming on the surface; light.

Floaty [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light.

Flobert [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.

Flocci [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Floccus

Floccillation [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases.

Floccose [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Spotted with small tufts like wool.

2. Having tufts of soft hairs, which are often deciduous.

Floccular [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the flocculus.

Flocculate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Furnished with tufts of curly hairs, as some insects.

Flocculate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To aggregate into small lumps.

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Genesis 2:10

And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads.

Now a river flowed out of Eden to water the garden, and from there it branched into four headwaters:

Genesis 4:4

And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the LORD had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,

Genesis 6:17

And, behold, I, even I, do bring a flood of waters upon the earth, to destroy all flesh, wherein is the breath of life, from under heaven; and every thing that is in the earth shall die.

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

Genesis 7:6

And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

Now Noah was 600 years old when the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:7

And Noah went in, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons’ wives with him, into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.

And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

Genesis 7:10

And it came to pass after seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

Genesis 7:11

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.

In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.

Genesis 7:17

And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

For forty days the flood kept coming on the earth, and the waters rose and lifted the ark high above the earth.

Genesis 7:18

And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

So the waters continued to surge and rise greatly on the earth, and the ark floated on the surface of the waters.

Genesis 8:2

The fountains also of the deep and the windows of heaven were stopped, and the rain from heaven was restrained;

The springs of the deep and the floodgates of the heavens were closed, and the rain from the sky was restrained.

Genesis 9:11

And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth.

And I establish My covenant with you: Never again will all life be cut off by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth.”

Genesis 9:15

And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

I will remember My covenant between Me and you and every living creature of every kind. Never again will the waters become a flood to destroy all life.

Genesis 9:28

And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

After the flood, Noah lived 350 years.

Genesis 10:1

Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

This is the account of Noah’s sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, who also had sons after the flood.

Genesis 10:32

These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations: and by these were the nations divided in the earth after the flood.

All these are the clans of Noah’s sons, according to their generations and nations. From these the nations of the earth spread out after the flood.

Genesis 11:10

These are the generations of Shem: Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood:

This is the account of Shem. Two years after the flood, when Shem was 100 years old, he became the father of Arphaxad.

Genesis 13:5

And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

Genesis 18:6

And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”

Genesis 21:28

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,

Genesis 24:35

And the LORD hath blessed my master greatly; and he is become great: and he hath given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and asses.

“The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.