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- Balloon - n. - A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation.
- Balloon - n. - A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
- Balloon - n. - A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
- Balloon - n. - A bomb or shell.
- Balloon - n. - A game played with a large inflated ball.
- Balloon - n. - The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
- Balloon - v. t. - To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
- Balloon - v. i. - To go up or voyage in a balloon.
- Balloon - v. i. - To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
- Balloon fish - - A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
- Ballooned - a. - Swelled out like a balloon.
- Ballooner - n. - One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
- Ballooning - n. - The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
- Ballooning - n. - The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
- Ballooning spider - - A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
- Balloonist - n. - An aeronaut.
- Balloonry - n. - The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
- Inflated - a. - Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.
- Waft - v. t. - To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
- Car - n. - The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
- Montgolfier - n. - A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
- Bur fish - - A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
- Drift - v. i. - To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
- Ballast - a. - Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.