BUOY
Buoy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buoyed; p. pr. & vb. n. Buoying.]
1. To keep from sinking in a fluid, as in water or air; to keep afloat; — with up.
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. 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.
BUOY
Buoy, v. i.
Defn: To float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope.
BUOYAGE
Buoy"age, n.
Defn: Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.
BUOYANCE
Buoy"ance, n.
Defn: Buoyancy. [R.]