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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..

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.

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

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..

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

Balloonist :: Balloonist (n.) An aeronaut.

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..

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

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 :: 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..

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

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

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

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..

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

Aerostat :: Aerostat (n.) A balloon.

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