Definition
• | 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. |
• | Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid. |
• | A distended, membranaceous pericarp. |
• | Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. |
• | To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. |
• | To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard. |