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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..

Gladded :: Gladded (imp. & p. p.) of Gla.

Gladden :: Gladden (v. t.) To make glad; to cheer; to please; to gratify; to rejoice; to exhilarate.

Gladden :: Gladden (v. i.) To be or become glad; to rejoice.

Gladdened :: Gladdened (imp. & p. p.) of Gladde.

Gladdening :: Gladdening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gladde.

Gladder :: Gladder (n.) One who makes glad.

Gladding :: Gladding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gla.

Ladde :: Ladde (obs. imp.) of Lead, to guide..

Ladder :: Ladder (v. i.) A frame usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened cross strips or rounds forming steps..

Ladder :: Ladder (v. i.) That which resembles a ladder in form or use; hence, that by means of which one attains to eminence..

Laddie :: Laddie (n.) A lad; a male sweetheart.

Maladdress :: Maladdress (n.) Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one..

Stepladder :: Stephanotis (n.) A perfume said to be prepared from the flowers of Stephanotis floribunda.