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(1):

(n.) A bomb or shell.

(2):

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

(3):

(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.

(4):

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

(5):

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

(6):

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

(7):

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

(8):

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

(9):

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