KJV Dictionary Definition: float

float

FLOAT, n.

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. L. fuctus.

FLOAT, v.i. L. fluo, to flow.

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.

floated

FLO'ATED, pp.

1. Flooded; overflowed.

2. Borne on water.

floating

FLO'ATING, ppr.

1. Swimming; conveying on water; overflowing.

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