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1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.
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