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See Shallot.

rly used in Scotland; the fourth part of a boll of grain or meal. The Linlithgow wheat firlot was to the imperial bushel as 998 to 1000; the barley firlot as 1456 to 1000. Brande & C.

A fleet; especially, a

The state of floating.

Represented as flying or streaming in the air; as, a banner flotant.

The science of floating bodies. Center of flotation. (Shipbuilding) (a) The center of any given plane of flotation. (b) More commonly, the middle of the length of the load water line. Rankine. -- Plane, or Line, of flotation, the plane or line in which the horizontal surface of a fluid cuts a body floating in it. See…

A process of separating the substances contained in pulverized ore or the like by depositing the mixture on the surface of a flowing liquid, the substances that are quickly wet readily overcoming the surface tension of the liquid and sinking, the others flowing off in a film or slime on the surface, though, perhaps, h…

A wave. [Obs.] "The Mediterranean flote." Shak.

Wavy; flowing. [Obs.] With flotery beard. Chaucer.

A little fleet, or a fleet of small vessels.

Goods lost by shipwreck, and floating on the sea; -- in distinction from jetsam or jetson. Blackstone.

Skimmed. [Obs.]

Formerly, a housing or caparison for a horse. Sir W. Scott.

A rebated cross, formerly used as a secret emblem, and a common ornament. It is also called gammadion, and swastika.

Pertaining to the tannin or nutgalls. Gallotannic acid. See Tannic acid, under Tannic.

Giddi; light; inconstant; wanton. [Obs.] "O giglot fortune!" Shak.

A wanton; a lascivious or light, giddy girl. [Obs.] The giglet is willful, and is running upon her fate. Sir W. Scott.

Pertaining to both tongue and epiglottis; as, glossoepiglottic folds.

Of or pertaining to, or produced by, the glottis; glottic. Glottal catch, an effect produced upon the breath or voice by a sudden opening or closing of the glotts. Sweet.

Of or pertaining to the glottis; glottal.