floating plate (flotingplat)

1. Same as floating-board. - 2. In stereotyping (by the plaster proce ), a plate of iron, about half an inch thick, which fits loosely in the dipping-pan when the pan contains melted type-metal. This floating-plate, which floats in the heavier melted type-metal, aids in giving uniformity of thickne to the stereotype plate. float-mineral (flot'min"er-al), n. Fragments of ore detached and carried to some distance from their native bed by currents of water or in the ordinary proce of erosion; also, particles of metal which are liberated in the proce of stamping, and are too thin and minute to settle readily in water, as in the case of float-gold or float-copper. float-ore (flot'or), n. Same as float -mineral. float some, n. A dialectal variant of flotsam. float stone (flot's ton), n. 1. A spongiform quartz, a mineral of a spongy texture, of a whitish-gray color, often with a tinge of yellow, so light as to float in water. It frequently contains a nucleus of common flint. bricklaying, a stone used to rub curved work smooth and remove the ax-marks, as in the heads and backs of niches. Its form is made the reverse of that of the surface on which it IMG:content-1510.png:[blocks in formation] Raleigh , E ays. Some few buttes of beare being flotie they got, which though it had lien six moneths vnder water was very good. Quoted in Capt . John Smith's Works, II. 154. 2. Rank and tall, as gra . [Prov. Eng.] flocci, n. Plural of floccus . floccillation (flok-si-la's hon), n. [ floc cill us , an a umed dim. of L. floccus , a lock or flock of wool, etc.: see flock2 , n.] In pathol . , a delirious picking of the bedclothes by a patient; car phologia. floccipendt, v. t. [ By reason wherof he should be flocci pended and had in contempt & disdeygne of the Scottish people. Hall , Hen. VII., an. 11.