Balloon

Balloon - Other Definitions

• (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.
  
  
• (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
  
  
• (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
  
  
• (n.) A bomb or shell.
  
  
• (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
  
  
• (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  
  
• (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  
  
• (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  
  
• (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a 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.
  
  
• (n.) The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
  
  
• (n.) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
  
  
• 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.