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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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