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An arrow. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something. Specifically:

That may be floated.

Same as Flotage.

See Flotation.

One who floats or swims.

Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.

A charge, lien, etc., that successively attaches to such assets as a person may have from time to time, leaving him more or less free to dispose of or encumber them as if no such charge or lien existed.

In a floating manner.

Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.

A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap. Flobert rifle, a rifle adapted to the use of floberts.

A delirious picking of bedclothes by a sick person, as if to pick off flocks of wool; carphology; -- an alarming symptom in acute diseases. Dunglison.

Spotted with small tufts like wool. Wright.

Of or pertaining to the flocculus.

To aggregate into small lumps.

The process by which small particles of fine soils and sediments aggregate into larger lumps.

A detached mass of loosely fibrous structure like a shredded tuft of wool.

The state of being flocculent.

Clothed with small flocks or flakes; woolly. Gray.

A small lobe in the under surface of the cerebellum, near the middle peduncle; the subpeduncular lobe.