Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Bladder

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Noah Webster Dictionary (1913 edition): Bladder


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(1):

(n.) 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.

(2):

(v. t.) To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

(3):

(v. t.) To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.

(4):

(n.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

(5):

(n.) Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.

(6):

(n.) Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.