English English Dictionary

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.

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of Bladder

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning.

To put forth or have a blade.

To furnish with a blade.

The principal rafters of a roof.

The four large shell plates on the sides, and the five large ones of the middle, of the carapace of the sea turtle, which yield the best tortoise shell.

Properly, the leaf, or flat part of the leaf, of any plant, especially of gramineous plants. The term is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses.

The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword.

The scapula or shoulder blade.

The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller.

The scapula. See Blade, 4.