† floathingn.
Obsolete. rare.
A thin stratum.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > a layer > [noun] > thin
lamina1656
rime1694
floathing1743
folia1794
flash1909
1743 Sel. Trans. Soc. Improvers Knowl. Agric. Scotl. 185 I first lay upon the Bars small Wood or Whins, then a Floathing of small Coals, then Stones.
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n.1743- to look downward
- to look downwards
- to look etc ways for sunday
- to look feel like something the cat has brought in
- to know a hawk from a handsaw
- to know a hawk from a hernshaw
- to know a move or two
- to know a person a thing or two
- to know a person by her company
- to know a person by his company
- to know a person by the company he keeps
- to know a person by the company she keeps
- to know a person in the biblical sense
- to know a thing or two
- to know about
- to know all is to forgive all
- to know all the angles
- to know all the answers
- to know asunder
- to know backwards
- to know best
- to know better
- to know better formerly also better things
- to know both sides of a penny
- to know by headmark