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A large tree (Celtis australis), found in the south of Europe. It has a hard wood, and bears a cherrylike fruit. Called also nettle tree. Eng. Cyc.

One who votes by ballot.

To cure, as herrings, by salting and smoking them; to bloat. [Obs.]

A Mexican prickly poppy (Argemone platyceras), which has migrated into California.

The common burdock; the clotbur. [Obs.] Wyclif.

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

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

A dish of food composed of many kings of fish.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

a small piece of paper on which women roll up their hair to make it curl; a curl paper.

Fond of the arts. [R.]

a little puppet," "a little doll," or "a young butterfly." Cf. Popet. [Obs.] So gay a popelote, so sweet a wench. Chaucer.

The urubu, or American black vulture.

Positive; clear; certain; not doubtful. [R.] I am absolute 't was very Cloten. Shak.

To dry (herrings) in smoke. See Blote.

The sea; a wave. See Flote, n. Float board, one of the boards fixed radially to the rim of an undershot water wheel or of a steamer's paddle wheel; -- a vane. -- Float case (Naut.), a caisson used for lifting a ship. -- Float copper or gold (Mining), fine particles of metallic copper or of gold suspended in water, an…

A large burrowing snake (Spilotes Couperi) of the Southern United States. Gopher drift (Mining), an irregular prospecting drift, following or seeking the ore without regard to regular grade or section. Raymond.

razil. Harpy bat (Zoöl.) (a) An East Indian fruit bat of the genus Harpyia (esp. H. cerphalotes), having prominent, tubular nostrils. (b) A small, insectivorous Indian bat (Harpiocephalus harpia). Harpy fly (Zoöl.), the house fly.

y squid which has the arms furnished with hooks, instead of suckers, as in the genera Enoploteuthis and Onychteuthis. -- Hook wrench, a wrench or spanner, having a hook at the end, instead of a jaw, for turning a bolthead, nut, or coupling.

The lote, or nettle tree. See Lote.