Balloon

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1. 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.

2. Noun

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

3. Noun

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

4. Noun

A bomb or shell.

5. Noun

A game played with a large inflated ball.

6. Noun

The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

7. Verb

To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.

8. Verb

To go up or voyage in a balloon.

9. Verb

To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
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