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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.
A spinose, plectognath fish of the Allantic coast of the United States (esp. Chilo mycterus geometricus) having the power of distending its body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.
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v. i.
To float or be driven along by, or as by, a current of water or air; as, the ship drifted astern; a raft drifted ashore; the balloon drifts slowly east.
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Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.
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Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas.
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A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
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One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
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The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
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To go up or voyage in a balloon.
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To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
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The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc.
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To cause to move or go in a wavy manner, or by the impulse of waves, as of water or air; to bear along on a buoyant medium; as, a balloon was wafted over the channel.
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A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence.
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Swelled out like a balloon.
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To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon.
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To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
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The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales.
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A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very inflammable, and is an ingredient of coal gas and water gas. It is standard of chemical equivalents or combining weights, and also of valence, being the typical monad. Symbol H. Atomic weight 1.
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The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
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An aeronaut.
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