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BUOY, n. A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor,and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks,employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel.

To stream the buoy, is to let it fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.




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BUOY, n. A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor,and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks,employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel.

To stream the buoy, is to let it fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.


BUOY, n. [Fr. bouée, a buoy; D. boei, a buoy, a lodge or hut, a fetter, or shackle, a handcuff; boeijen, to fetter, to buoy; Ger. boy; Dan. boy; Russ. bui; Sp. boya, a buoy; probably from the root of Sax. byan, to dwell, that is, to set, be fixed, or stationary. Dan. boe, boende.]

A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor, and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks, employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel. To stream the buoy, is to let it fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor. – Mar. Dict.


BUOY, v.i.

To float; to rise by specific lightness. – Pope.


BUOY, v.t.

  1. To keep afloat in a fluid; to bear up, or keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; with up. – Woodward.
  2. To support, or sustain; to keep from sinking into ruin or despondency. – King Charles.
  3. To fix buoys, as a direction to mariners.

Buoy
  1. A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark a channel or to point out the position of something beneath the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.

    Anchor buoy, a buoy attached to, or marking the position of, an anchor. -- Bell buoy, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be rung by the motion of the waves. -- Breeches buoy. See under Breeches. -- Cable buoy, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in rocky anchorage. -- Can buoy, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron, usually conical or pear-shaped. -- Life buoy, a float intended to support persons who have fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to save them. -- Nut or Nun buoy, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end. -- To stream the buoy, to let the anchor buoy fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor. -- Whistling buoy, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown by the action of the waves.

  2. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air] to keep afloat; -- with up.
  3. To float; to rise like a buoy.

    "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope.
  4. To support or sustain; to preserve from sinking into ruin or despondency.

    Those old prejudices, which buoy up the ponderous mass of his nobility, wealth, and title.
    Burke.

  5. To fix buoys to; to mark by a buoy or by buoys; as, to buoy an anchor; to buoy or buoy off a channel.

    Not one rock near the surface was discovered which was not buoyed by this floating weed.
    Darwin.

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Buoy

BUOY, noun A close empty cask, or a block of wood or cork, fastened by a rope to an anchor, and floating on the water, to show where the anchor is situated. Buoys are of various kinds, as can-buoys, in the form of a cone; nun-buoys, which are large in the middle, and tapering nearly to a point at each end; cable-buoys, empty casks, employed to buoy up the cable, in rocky anchorage. Buoys are used also as marks, to point out the situation of rocks, shoals, or a channel.

To stream the buoy is to let it fall by the ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.

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1. Weight; consequence; a bearing on some interest; that quality of any thing by which it may affect a measure, interest or result. The education of youth is of great importance to a free government. A religious education is of infinite importance to every human being.

2. Weight or consequence in the scale of being.

Thy own importance know.

Nor bound thy narrow views to things below.

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He believes himself a man of importance.

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