floating clough

A barge with scrapers attached, which is driven by the tide or current, to rake up the silt and sand over which it pa es, so that the sediment may be removed by the current. may have sufficient flotative power to carry its load. floating-harbor, s. Hydr. Eng .: A breakwater of cages or booms. anchored and fastened together, and used as a protection to ships lying at anchor to leeward. floating-island, floating-islet, s. 1. Ord . Lang .: An island formed in a lake or in land water, and consisting of ma es of roots, reeds ., interlacing and holding together earth, mud . Such islands are at times of a considerable size 2. Cook .: A dish composed of milk, white wine, sugar, and eggs, with raspberry or strawberry marmalade. IMG:content-1776.png:[blocks in formation] Stereotyp.: A flat cast-iron plate placed at the bottom of a square cast-iron tray in which a stereotype is cast. The plaster mold is laid, face down, on the floating-plate, and the two are placed in the heated dipping-pan, the cover of which is screwed on. The dipping-pan is plunged in an iron pot containing the molten alloy, which runs in at the gates and floats the plate and mold; the latter has notches at its edges, which allow the metal to penetrate between it and the plate. The result is a casting with a flat back, and a face with cameo impre ion resembling the original type. IMG:content-1777.png:[blocks in formation] pine, pit, sïre, sir, marine; gō, pot, IMG:content-1778.png:[blocks in formation] Eng., ., suff. -ation .] Pathol.: A tendency in a patient under the influence of delirium to pick the bedclothes. This is often seen toward the termination of gastric and other fevers, and is in all cases a very unfavorable symptom. *floc-çi-nâu-çi-al, a. [Latin flocci =of little value, and nauci =of trifling account.) Of little or no account. *floc-çi-nâu-çi-ty, 8. [FLOCCINAUCIAL.] Anything worthle or of little account. *fioc'-çi-pěnd, v. t . [Lat. flocci =(lit.) the price of a lock of wool, hence, of no value, and pen do =to weigh, to consider.) To think of no value; to despise. floc-cose, a . [Lat. floccosus full of flocks of wool.] Bot.: Covered with dense hairs, which fall away in little tufts; flocky, as Verbascum floccosum and pulverulentum . (Lindley.) floc-cō'se-ly, adv. [Eng. floccose; -ly.] In a floccose manner. floccosely-tomentose. Bot.: In little tufts. ( Paxton.) 1863 refuse of the factory, much of it being derived from the cloth-shearing machine. It is scoured, dyed, dried, and ground, sifted into grades, and dusted over the varnished surface of the paper. 3. A fibrous material for stuffing upholstery, mat tre es, . It is made by reducing to a degree of finene , by machinery, coarse woolen cloths, rags, tags, old stockings, . B. As adj .: Made of or composed of flock; filled with flocks or locks of wool, pieces of cloth cut up fine, .