Word Meanings - PHYSOGRADE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any siphonophore which has an air sac for a float, as the Physalia.

Related words: (words related to PHYSOGRADE)

• FLOATATION
  See FLOTATION
• WHICHEVER; WHICHSOEVER
  Whether one or another; whether one or the other; which; that one which; as, whichever road you take, it will lead you to town.
• WHICH
  the root of hwa who + lic body; hence properly, of what sort or kind; akin to OS. hwilik which, OFries. hwelik, D. welk, G. welch, OHG. welih, hwelih, Icel. hvilikr, Dan. & Sw. hvilken, Goth. hwileiks, 1. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
• FLOATABLE
  That may be floated.
• FLOATY
  Swimming on the surface; buoyant; light. Sir W. Raleigh.
• FLOATINGLY
  In a floating manner.
• FLOATAGE
  See FLOTAGE
• PHYSALIA
  A genus of large oceanic Siphonophora which includes the Portuguese man-of-war. Note: It has a large air sac, or float, with a sail-like crest on its upper side. Numerous zooids of different kinds are attached to the under side of the float. Some
• PHYSALIAE
  An order of Siphonophora which includes Physalia.
• SIPHONOPHORE
  One of the Siphonophora.
• FLOAT
  A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die. Knight. 4. The act of flowing; flux; flow. Bacon. 5. A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep. Mortimer.
• FLOATING CHARGE; FLOATING LIEN
  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.
• FLOATING
  1. Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 2. Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 3. Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as,
• FLOATER
  1. One who floats or swims. 2. A float for indicating the height of a liquid surface.
• REFLOAT
  Reflux; ebb. Bacon.
• AFLOAT
  1. Borne on the water; floating; on board ship. On such a full sea are we now afloat. Shak. 2. Moving; passing from place to place; in general circulation; as, a rumor is afloat. 3. Unfixed; moving without guide or control; adrift; as, our affairs
• OVERFLOAT
  To overflow. Dryden.