Possible Definitions:
1. Floating (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air.
2. Floating (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals.
3. Floating (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt.
4. Floating (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above.
5. Floating (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.
6. Floating (n.) The process of rendering oysters and scallops plump by placing them in fresh or brackish water; -- called also fattening, plumping, and laying out.
