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, v. i. To float; to rise like a buoy. "Rising merit will buoy up at last." Pope.
Buoy"age (&?;), n. Buoys, taken collectively; a series of buoys, as for the guidance of vessels into or out of port; the providing of buoys.