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

Parachute :: Parachute (n.) A contrivance somewhat in the form of an umbrella, by means of which a descent may be made from a balloon, or any eminence..

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

Ballast :: Ballast (a.) Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

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..

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

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.

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloon.

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.

Inflated :: Inflated (a.) Filled, as with air or gas; blown up; distended; as, a balloon inflated with gas..

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

Ballooning :: Ballooning (n.) The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.

Aeronautics :: Aeronautics (n.) The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning..

Ballooning :: Ballooning (n.) The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales..

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..

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

Dirigible :: Dirigible (a.) Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon..

Waft :: Waft (v. t.) 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..

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..

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