1. 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.
2. Noun
Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
3. Noun
A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
4. Noun
Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
5. Verb
To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
6. Verb
To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
7. Noun
a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or gas)
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