From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Buoy \Buoy\, verb (used with an object) [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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