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