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-- Plane, or Line, of flotation, the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See Bearing, n., 9 (c). -- Surface of flotation (Shipbuilding), the imaginary surface which all the planes of flotation touch when a vessel rolls or pitches; the envelope of all such planes.…

To move with a continual change of place among the particles or parts, as a fluid; to change place or circulate, as a liquid; as, rivers flow from springs and lakes; tears flow from the eyes.

The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion. Dunglison.

A fluid state. [Obs.] Sir I. Newton.

A fluid discharge from the bowels or other part; especially, an excessive and morbid discharge; as, the bloody flux or dysentery. See Bloody flux.

Fusion; the running of metals into a fluid state.

nt. The merely human,the temporary and fluxional. Coleridge. Fluxional structure (Geol.), fluidal structure.

The quality of being fluid. [Obs.] Fielding.

In distillation of low wines, the first portion of spirit that comes over, being a fluid abounding in fusel oil. Knight.

To congeal; to harden into ice; to convert from a fluid to a solid form by cold, or abstraction of heat.

) for producing intense cold. -- Freezing point, that degree of a thermometer at which a fluid begins to freeze; -- applied particularly to water, whose freezing point is at 32º Fahr., and at 0º Centigrade.

The agitation of the surface of a fluid by fermentation or other cause; a rippling on the surface of water. Addison.

The act of freezing; -- applied chiefly to the congelation of water; congelation of fluids.

The bubbles caused in fluids or liquors by fermentation or agitation; spume; foam; esp., a spume of saliva caused by disease or nervous excitement.

A passage or avenue for a fluid or flowing substance; specifically, a smoke flue or pipe; the iron chimney of a steamship or the like. Funnel box (Mining), an apparatus for collecting finely crushed ore from water. Knight. -- Funnel stay (Naut.), one of the ropes or rods steadying a steamer's funnel.…

Capable of being melted or rendered fluid by heat; fusible. [R.] "A kind of fusil marble" Woodward.

The act or operation of melting or rendering fluid by heat; the act of melting together; as, the fusion of metals.

An amorphous, gelatinous substance containing nitrogen, found in milk and other animal fluids. It resembles peptone, and is variously regarded as a coagulating or emulsifying agent.

The bitter, alkaline, viscid fluid found in the gall bladder, beneath the liver. It consists of the secretion of the liver, or bile, mixed with that of the mucous membrane of the gall bladder.

nt tumor, situated somewhere on a tendon, and commonly formed by the effusion of a viscid fluid into it; -- called also weeping sinew. Ganglion cell, a nerve cell. See Illust. under Bipolar.