English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Balloon
(n.)
The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the
mouth of a pictured figure.
Balloon
(v. t.)
To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
Balloon
(v. i.)
To go up or voyage in a balloon.
Balloon
(v. i.)
To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon,
having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its
dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
Ballooned
(a.)
Swelled out like a balloon.
Ballooner
(n.)
One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
Ballooning
(n.)
The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in
them.
Ballooning
(n.)
The process of temporarily raising the value of a
stock, as by fictitious sales.
A spider which has the habit of rising into the
air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by
ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries
the spider aloft.
Balloonist
(n.)
An aeronaut.
Balloonry
(n.)
The art or practice of ascending in a balloon;
aeronautics.
Ballot
(n.)
Originally, a ball used for secret voting. Hence: Any
printed or written ticket used in voting.
Ballot
(n.)
The act of voting by balls or written or printed ballots or
tickets; the system of voting secretly by balls or by tickets.
Ballot
(n.)
The whole number of votes cast at an election, or in a
given territory or electoral district.
Ballot
(v. t.)
To vote for or in opposition to.
Ballot
(n.)
To vote or decide by ballot; as, to ballot for a candidate.
Ballotade
(v. i.)
A leap of a horse, as between two pillars, or upon a
straight line, so that when his four feet are in the air, he shows only
the shoes of his hind feet, without jerking out.
Ballotation
(n.)
Voting by ballot.
Balloted
(imp. & p. p.)
of Ballot