Bladder

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bladder \Blad"der\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bladdered}; p. pr. &
     vb. n. {Bladdering}.]
     1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.]
        --G. Fletcher.
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     2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bladder \Blad"der\ (bl[a^]d"d[~e]r), n. [OE. bladder, bleddre,
     AS. bl[=ae]dre, bl[=ae]ddre; akin to Icel. bla[eth]ra, SW.
     bl[aum]ddra, Dan. bl[ae]re, D. blaar, OHG. bl[=a]tara the
     bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister, bustule;
     all fr. the same root as AS. bl[=a]wan, E. blow, to puff. See
     {Blow} to puff.]
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     1. (Anat.) A bag or sac in animals, which serves as the
        receptacle of some fluid; as, the urinary bladder; the
        gall bladder; -- applied especially to the urinary
        bladder, either within the animal, or when taken out and
        inflated with air.
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     2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or
        a thin, watery fluid.
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     3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
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     4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with
        bladders of philosophy." --Rochester.
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     {Bladder nut}, or {Bladder tree} (Bot.), a genus of plants
        ({Staphylea}) with bladderlike seed pods.
  
     {Bladder pod} (Bot.), a genus of low herbs ({Vesicaria}) with
        inflated seed pods.
  
     {Bladdor senna} (Bot.), a genus of shrubs ({Colutea}), with
        membranaceous, inflated pods.
  
     {Bladder worm} (Zool.), the larva of any species of tapeworm
        ({T[ae]nia}), found in the flesh or other parts of
        animals. See {Measle}, {Cysticercus}.
  
     {Bladder wrack} (Bot.), the common black rock weed of the
        seacoast ({Fucus nodosus} and {Fucus vesiculosus}) --
        called also {bladder tangle}. See {Wrack}.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bladder
       n 1: a distensible membranous sac (usually containing liquid or
            gas) [syn: {vesica}]
       2: a bag that fills with air

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  49 Moby Thesaurus words for "bladder":
     air bubble, bag, ball, balloon, bleb, blister, blob, blood blister,
     boll, bolus, bubble, bulb, bulbil, bulblet, bulla, cap and bells,
     coxcomb, ellipsoid, fever blister, fob, geoid, globe, globelet,
     globoid, globule, glomerulus, gob, gobbet, knob, knot, motley,
     oblate spheroid, orb, orbit, orblet, pellet, pocket, poke,
     prolate spheroid, rondure, sac, sack, slapstick, soap bubble, sock,
     sphere, spheroid, spherule, vesicle