Air Bladder :: Air bladder () An air sac, sometimes double or variously lobed, in the visceral cavity of many fishes. It originates in the same way as the lungs of air-breathing vertebrates, and in the adult may retain a tubular connection with the pharynx or esophagus..

Air Bladder :: Air bladder () A sac or bladder full of air in an animal or plant; also an air hole in a casting.

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) 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..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp..

Bladder :: Bladder (n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound..

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

Bladder :: Bladder (v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard..

Bladdered :: Bladdered (imp. & p. p.) of Bladde.

Bladdering :: Bladdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bladde.

Bladderwort :: Bladderwort (n.) 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..

Bladdery :: Bladdery (a.) Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder..

Blade :: Blade (n.) 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..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The cutting part of an instrument; as, the blade of a knife or a sword..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The broad part of an oar; also, one of the projecting arms of a screw propeller..

Blade :: Blade (n.) The scapula or shoulder blade.

Blade :: Blade (n.) The principal rafters of a roof.

Blade :: Blade (n.) 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..

Blade :: Blade (n.) A sharp-witted, dashing, wild, or reckless, fellow; -- a word of somewhat indefinite meaning..

Blade :: Blade (v. t.) To furnish with a blade.

Blade :: Blade (v. i.) To put forth or have a blade.

Bladebone :: Bladebone (n.) The scapula. See Blade, 4..

Bladed :: Bladed (a.) Having a blade or blades; as, a two-bladed knife..

Bladed :: Bladed (a.) Divested of blades; as, bladed corn..

Bladed :: Bladed (a.) Composed of long and narrow plates, shaped like the blade of a knife..

Bladefish :: Bladefish (n.) A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish..

Bladesmith :: Bladesmith (n.) A sword cutler.

Blady :: Blady (a.) Consisting of blades.

Twayblade :: Twayblade (n.) Any one of several orchidaceous plants which have only two leaves, as the species of Listera and of Liparis..

Twyblade :: Twyblade (n.) See Twayblade.

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