Balloon

1. (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.
2. (n.) A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London.
3. (n.) A round vessel, usually with a short neck, to hold or receive whatever is distilled; a glass vessel of a spherical form.
4. (n.) A bomb or shell.
5. (n.) A game played with a large inflated ball.
6. (n.) The outline inclosing words represented as coming from the mouth of a pictured figure.
7. (v. t.) To take up in, or as if in, a balloon.
8. (v. i.) To go up or voyage in a balloon.
9. (v. i.) To expand, or puff out, like a balloon.