Helen Fenton

Balloon: Definition and part of speech

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Balloon

  1. v. i. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
  2. 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.
  3. n. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul’s, in London.
  4. n. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  5. n. A bomb or shell.
  6. n. A game played with a large inflated ball.
  7. n. The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  8. v. t. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  9. v. i. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
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The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Balloon fish: Definition and part of speech

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Balloon fish

  1. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Ballooning: Definition and part of speech

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Ballooning

  1. n. The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
  2. n. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

Ballooning spider: Definition and part of speech

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Ballooning spider

  1. 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.