buoy

Definitions

1. 1.To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.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.
4. 4.To float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is buoy.

• What is to keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; -- with up called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope called?