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- English Word Flitting Definition A flying with lightness and celerity; a fluttering.
- English Word Flitting Definition A removal from one habitation to another.
- English Word Flittingly Definition In a flitting manner.
- English Word Flitty Definition Unstable; fluttering.
- English Word Flix Definition Down; fur.
- English Word Flix Definition The flux; dysentery.
- English Word Flo Definition An arrow.
- English Word Float Definition 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.
- English Word Float Definition A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- English Word Float Definition The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
- English Word Float Definition The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
- English Word Float Definition Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
- English Word Float Definition A float board. See Float board (below).
- English Word Float Definition A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
- English Word Float Definition The act of flowing; flux; flow.
- English Word Float Definition A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
- English Word Float Definition The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
- English Word Float Definition A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- English Word Float Definition A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
- English Word Float Definition A coal cart.