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Balloonry :: Balloonry (n.) The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.

Aerostation :: Aerostation (n.) Aerial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.

Ballooning Spider :: Ballooning spider () 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.

Car :: Car (n.) The basket, box, or cage suspended from a balloon to contain passengers, ballast, etc..

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London..

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one with a car attached for aerial navigation..

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form..

Balloon Fish :: Balloon fish () 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..

Bur Fish :: Bur fish () 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..

Ballooned :: Ballooned (a.) Swelled out like a balloon.

Venture :: Venture (v. t.) To expose to hazard; to risk; to hazard; as, to venture one's person in a balloon..

Drift :: Drift (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..

Balloon :: Balloon (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon..

Balloon :: Balloon (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon..

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.

Ballooner :: Ballooner (n.) One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.

Balloon :: Balloon (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.

Montgolfier :: Montgolfier (n.) 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..

Balloon :: Balloon (n.) A bomb or shell.

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