Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Float. 2. (a.) Buoyed upon or in a fluid; a, the floating timbers of a wreck; floating motes in the air. 3. (a.) Free or lose from the usual attachment; as, the floating ribs in man and some other animals. 4. (a.) Not funded; not fixed, invested, or determined; as, floating capital; a floating debt. 5. (n.) Floating threads. See Floating threads, above. 6. (n.) The second coat of three-coat plastering.

Multi-Version Concordance Floating (1 Occurrence) 2 Corinthians 11:25 Three times I have been beaten with Roman rods, once I have been stoned, three times I have been shipwrecked, once for full four and twenty hours I was floating on the open sea. (WEY)