Bladder

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

II. Bladder ·noun Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.

III. Bladder ·vt To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

IV. Bladder ·vt To swell out like a bladder with air; to Inflate.

V. Bladder ·noun Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

VI. Bladder ·noun A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the gall bladder;

— applied especially to the urinary bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air.

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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