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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