Fruits or seeds are sometimes sufficiently buoyant to float for a long time on sea- or fresh-water; e.
The most general agent in the dispersal of seeds is the wind or currents of air--the fruit or seed being rendered buoyant by wing-developments as in fruits of ash (fig.
In a buoyant land market this might not much affect the selling value, but for twenty years past the land market for city or suburban properties has been the reverse of buoyant.
There was a daring light in her eye, a buoyant challenge in her voice as she answered: "It is a splendid morning.
He looked at his cousin, and his ribald eyes coasted back to bold scrutiny of this young woman's charming, buoyant youth.
Indeed, freed from the labors of the day, Jules felt buoyant and happy.
He was in one of his buoyant moods, when he felt sure of his ability to conquer.
As our breath returned to us, slowly and labouringly did she rise, heavy and waterlogged; how unlike the buoyant creature she had been a few moments before.
Tessibel slipped her feet into Daddy's boots--she was strangely buoyant and unafraid.
The splendid, buoyant youth gathered instantly together, faith in the eternal promise of God sweeping over her once more.
The pure atmosphere was buoyant with the vigorous promise of morning, and gently laden with the mingled perfumes of slowly opening flowers.
Defn: To be moved, or to pass, on a buoyant medium; to float.
Defn: Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water.
To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
Passing through the air on wings, or by the buoyant force of the atmosphere; flying; having the power to fly.
Safety belt, a belt made of some buoyant material, or which is capable of being inflated, so as to enable a person to float in water; a life preserver.
Defn: A strong, buoyant boat especially designed for saving the lives of shipwrecked people.
How buoyant and brisk even the elders seem as the captains speed over to their company quarters and the quick, stirring orders are given!
But when Armitage left the colonel at a later hour and sought his own room for a brief rest he was in no such buoyant mood.
Still nearer, and we believed that we could see people in the buoyant towers.
The car proved morebuoyant than I had believed possible.
As for the others, we'll fasten the sleds on each side of the car, which will be buoyant enough to float them, and they'll have to take their chances outside.
Here we were reasonably safe and comfortable, for we were upon a raft of buoyant material that would probably float for months, while there was so much of it that it effectually broke the sea and prevented it from washing over us.
The bloom of the summer was in her face, and as she moved with her buoyantstep along the red clay road she was like a rare flower blown lightly by the wind.
A clear morning had ceased to arouse in him the old buoyant energy, and he had lost the zest of muscular exertion which had done so much to sweeten his labour in the fields.
Indeed, it requires effort to lift our less buoyant imaginations to the level of any great work.
Let us ever meet Him with a glad and thankful heart and He will reflect it back in the health of our countenance and the buoyant life and springing health, which is but the echo of a joyful heart.
If the bird is going to fly it must keep away from the fences and the trees, and trust to its buoyant wings.
Such was the Job Hesketh that I had known and loved for many years, and I saw no reason why his genial temper and buoyant heart should not remain with him to the end of his life.
His changed appearance and buoyant manner showed clearly that something had happened to him which had dispelled the pall of gloom which had settled on him since Abe Verity's death.
There was something buoyant in his tread, and his gigantic shoulders rolled from side to side like a seaman's on the quarter-deck.
He was imprisoned on account of his enthusiastic and chivalrous loyalty; but no dungeon could subdue his buoyant spirit.
The craft was somewhat less buoyant than it had been; but as we had a fresh breeze, we made good progress, and in two days we reached the point where we had turned back.
Having secured the log, which was of a peculiarly light and buoyant character, we invited my father and his companions up to our platform, where breakfast had just been prepared.
Some characteristics of Lippi's art--its union of a buoyant spirit of life and enjoyment with simplicity and tenderness of religious feeling--are seen in the pupil.
Ships have been running afore the wind, light andbuoyant as corks, with all their spars stepped and steady, when other ships have been shaved of every mast as close as the razor sweeps the chin.
I don't know what's the matter, I feel wretched at one time, and buoyant at another.
