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Floating \Float"ing\, a.
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.

Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been
withdrawn in great masses from the island.
--Macaulay.

{Floating anchor} (Naut.), a drag or sea anchor; drag sail.


{Floating battery} (Mil.), a battery erected on rafts or the
hulls of ships, chiefly for the defense of a coast or the
bombardment of a place.

{Floating bridge}.
(a) A bridge consisting of rafts or timber, with a floor
of plank, supported wholly by the water; a bateau
bridge. See {Bateau}.
(b) (Mil.) 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.
(c) A kind of ferryboat which is guided and impelled by
means of chains which are anchored on each side of a
stream, and pass over wheels on the vessel, the wheels
being driven by stream power.
(d) The landing platform of a ferry dock.

{Floating cartilage} (Med.), a cartilage which moves freely
in the cavity of a joint, and often interferes with the
functions of the latter.

{Floating dam}.
(a) An anchored dam.
(b) A caisson used as a gate for a dry dock.

{Floating derrick}, a derrick on a float for river and harbor
use, in raising vessels, moving stone for harbor
improvements, etc.

{Floating dock}. (Naut.) See under {Dock}.

{Floating harbor}, a breakwater of cages or booms, anchored
and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships
riding at anchor to leeward. --Knight.

{Floating heart} (Bot.), a small aquatic plant ({Limnanthemum
lacunosum}) whose heart-shaped leaves float on the water
of American ponds.

{Floating island}, a dish for dessert, consisting of custard
with floating masses of whipped cream or white of eggs.

{Floating kidney}. (Med.) See {Wandering kidney}, under
{Wandering}.

{Floating light}, a light shown at the masthead of a vessel
moored over sunken rocks, shoals, etc., to warn mariners
of danger; a light-ship; also, a light erected on a buoy
or floating stage.

{Floating liver}. (Med.) See {Wandering liver}, under
{Wandering}.

{Floating pier}, a landing stage or pier which rises and
falls with the tide.

{Floating ribs} (Anat.), the lower or posterior ribs which
are not connected with the others in front; in man they
are the last two pairs.

{Floating screed} (Plastering), a strip of plastering first
laid on, to serve as a guide for the thickness of the
coat.

{Floating threads} (Weaving), threads which span several
other threads without being interwoven with them, in a
woven fabric.

Drag \Drag\, n. [See {Drag}, v. t., and cf. {Dray} a cart, and
1st {Dredge}.]
1. The act of dragging; anything which is dragged.

2. A net, or an apparatus, to be drawn along the bottom under
water, as in fishing, searching for drowned persons, etc.

3. A kind of sledge for conveying heavy bodies; also, a kind
of low car or handcart; as, a stone drag.

4. A heavy coach with seats on top; also, a heavy carriage.
[Collog.] --Thackeray.

5. A heavy harrow, for breaking up ground.

6.
(a) Anything towed in the water to retard a ship's
progress, or to keep her head up to the wind; esp., a
canvas bag with a hooped mouth, so used. See {Drag
sail} (below).
(b) Also, a skid or shoe, for retarding the motion of a
carriage wheel.
(c) Hence, anything that retards; a clog; an obstacle to
progress or enjoyment.

My lectures were only a pleasure to me, and no
drag. --J. D.
Forbes.

7. Motion affected with slowness and difficulty, as if
clogged. ``Had a drag in his walk.'' -- Hazlitt.

8. (Founding) The bottom part of a flask or mold, the upper
part being the cope.

9. (Masonry) A steel instrument for completing the dressing
of soft stone.

10. (Marine Engin.) The difference between the speed of a
screw steamer under sail and that of the screw when the
ship outruns the screw; or between the propulsive effects
of the different floats of a paddle wheel. See Citation
under {Drag}, v. i., 3.

{Drag sail} (Naut.), a sail or canvas rigged on a stout
frame, to be dragged by a vessel through the water in
order to keep her head to the wind or to prevent drifting;
-- called also {drift sail}, {drag sheet}, {drag anchor},
{sea anchor}, {floating anchor}, etc.

{Drag twist} (Mining), a spiral hook at the end of a rod for
cleaning drilled holes.