Floating

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