Balloon

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A bomb or shell.

II. Balloon ·vi To go up or voyage in a balloon.

III. Balloon ·vt To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

IV. Balloon ·noun A game played with a large inflated ball.

V. Balloon ·vi To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.

VI. Balloon ·noun A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, ·etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.

VII. Balloon ·noun The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

VIII. Balloon ·noun A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.

IX. Balloon ·noun 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.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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