a. [ Gr. &unr_;, fr. &unr_; to hear. ] Same as Acroamatic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or practice of rowing or sailing, esp. as an amusement; carriage in boats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In Persia, a punishment of capital offenders, by laying them on the back in a covered boat, where they are left to perish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. boatus, fr. boare to roar. ] A crying out; a roaring; a bellowing; reverberation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The guns were heard . . . about a hundred Italian miles, in long boations. Derham. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From the native name: cf. F. coati. ] (Zool.) A mammal of tropical America of the genus Nasua, allied to the raccoon, having a ringed tail but with a longer body, tail, and nose; -- called also coati mondi and coati mundi.
Syn. -- coati, coati-mondi, coati-mundi, coon cat, Nasua narica. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The red coati (Nasua socialis), called also coati mondi, inhabits Mexico and Central America. The brown coati (Nasua narica) is found in Surinam and Brazil. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as coati.
Syn. -- coati, coon cat, Nasua narica. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. A coat or covering; a layer of any substance, as a cover or protection; as, the coating of a retort or vial. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Cloth for coats; as, an assortment of coatings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a Slavic-speaking country on the Adriatic, part of the Balkan region. It was formerly part of Yugoslavia. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to Croatia. -- n. A Croat. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. [ 1913 Webster ]

Trade was at an end. Floating capital had been withdrawn in great masses from the island. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. (Weaving) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The second coat of three-coat plastering. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adv. In a floating manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characteristic of a goat; goatlike. [ 1913 Webster ]

Give your chaste body up to the embraces
Of goatish lust. Massinger.

-- Goat"ish*ly, adv. -- Goat"ish*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inchoatio, incohatio. ] Act of beginning; commencement; inception. [ 1913 Webster ]

The setting on foot some of those arts, in those parts, would be looked on as the first inchoation of them. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

It is now in actual progress, from the rudest inchoation to the most elaborate finishing. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inchoativus, incohativus: cf. F. inchoatif. ] Expressing or pertaining to a beginning; inceptive; as, an inchoative verb. “Some inchoative or imperfect rays.” W. Montagu. -- n. An inchoative verb. See Inceptive. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ etc. } (Law) A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

n. Repetition of a bellow. [ R. ] Bp. Patrick. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The occupation or business of running a steamboat, or of transporting merchandise, passengers, etc., by steamboats. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bookbinding) The shearing of a pile of books which are as yet uncovered, or out of boards. Knight. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Arch.) A drip, or drip molding. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A fabric designed for waistcoats; esp., one in which there is a pattern, differently colored yarns being used. [ 1913 Webster ]