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noun

Bladder n.

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.

2.

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

3.

(Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.

4.

Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy."

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.

Bladder senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea), with membranaceous, inflated pods.

Bladder worm (Zool.), the larva of any species of tapeworm (Taenia), 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.

verb

Bladder v. t. (past & past part. bladdered; pres. part. bladdering)

1.

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

2.

To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.

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Etymology of 'Bladder'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bladder" Quotes from Famous Books

... took to be the branching white mullein. Gray says it is found in Pennsylvania and at the head of Oneida Lake. Doubtless it had come by rail from one place or the other. Our botanist says of the bladder campion, a species of pink, that it has been naturalized around Boston; but it is now much farther west, and I know fields along the Hudson overrun with it. Streams and watercourses are the natural highway of the ...

— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs

... old illustration about degrees of glory in heaven; they are each full, but the quantity that one contains is much less than that which the other may hold. Add to the illustration that the vessels can grow, and that filling makes them grow; as a shrunken bladder when you pass gas into it will expand and round itself out, and all the creases will be smoothed away. Such is the Apostle's idea here, that a process of filling goes on which may satisfy the then ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Ephesians; Epistles of St. Peter and St. John • Alexander Maclaren

... rascals as you'll meet in a day's ride. They pull together like one rope reeved through two blocks. That 'ere constable was e'enamost strangled t'other day; and if he hadn't had a little grain more wit than his master, I guess he'd had his wind-pipe stopped as tight as a bladder. There is an outlaw of a feller here, for all the world like one of our Kentucky Squatters, one Bill Smith—a critter that neither fears man nor devil. Sheriff and constable can make no hand of him; they can't catch him no how; and ...

— The Clockmaker • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... being attired in every respect like the familiar guardians of the peace on Earth, except that he carried a harmless and gaily-decked bladder in place of the more serviceable baton, and beckoned to him. ...

— Punch Among the Planets • Various

... fortunate in your behalf could have occurred than Schmidt's interference as Lord Valletort's legal adviser. I know Schmidt, and Schmidt knows me. In this affair you would be a baby in his hands, just as he would resemble a bladder of lard in yours. My difficulty is that I really cannot give reasons, but you will appreciate the position when I say that, for the moment, the murder of Mr. Hunter has become an affair of state, and all information regarding recent developments ...

— One Wonderful Night - A Romance of New York • Louis Tracy

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