Word Definition

Balloon

  1. To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
  2. To go up or voyage in a balloon.
  3. To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.
  4. 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.
  5. A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
  6. A game played with a large inflated ball.
  7. A bomb or shell.
  8. The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
  9. A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.