[f. BUOYANT: see -ANCE.]
1. = BUOYANCY. (poet. or rhetorical.)
1821. Lockhart, Valerius, III. iii. 86. The words of the royal prophet produced I know not what of buoyance and of emotion.
1833. H. Coleridge, To Nautilus, in Q. Rev., XLIX. 520. Leap along with gladsome buoyance.
2. A contrivance for imparting buoyancy to boats.
1883. Fisheries Exhib. Catal., 39. The side buoyance can be taken out and repaired…. Punt, fitted with buoyance, if swamped not to sink.
