meaning of balloons

1. 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.
2.
A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc. , as at St. Pauls, in London.
3.
A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
4.
A bomb or shell.
5.
A game played with a large inflated ball.
6.
The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
7.
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
8.
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
9.
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
10.
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.


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