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

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

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

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

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

Aeronaut :: Aeronaut (n.) An aerial navigator; a balloonist.

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

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..

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

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

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 (n.) A bomb or shell.

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..

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

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

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloonist; an aeronaut.

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..

Hydrogen :: Hydrogen (n.) A gaseous element, colorless, tasteless, and odorless, the lightest known substance, being fourteen and a half times lighter than air (hence its use in filling balloons), and over eleven thousand times lighter than water. It is very abundant, being an ingredient of water and of many other substances, especially those of animal or vegetable origin. It may by produced in many ways, but is chiefly obtained by the action of acids (as sulphuric) on metals, as zinc, iron, etc. It is very

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