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To raise little bladders or blisters upon; to inflame and separate the cuticle of; to blister. Wiseman.

A bladderlike vessel; a membranous cavity; a cyst; a cell. Specifically: --(a) (Bot.)

Of a pertaining to the bladder and the prostrate gland.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the uterus.

Of or pertaining to the bladder and the vagina.

ontaining, or composed of, vesicles or vesiclelike structures; covered with vesicles or bladders; vesiculate; as, vesicular coral; vesicular lava; a vesicular leaf.

Bladdery; full of, or covered with, bladders; vesicular.

Bladdery; vesicular; vesiculate; composed of vesicles; covered with vesicles; as, a vesiculose shell.

Madder.

in or about pools and ponds, and feeds largely of fishes. Called also water snake, water adder, water viper.

u tell'st of kings, and who aspire; Who fall, who rise, who triumph, who do moan. Daniel. Adders who with cloven tongues Do hiss into madness. Shak. Whom I could pity thus forlorn. Milton. How hard is our fate, who serve in the state. Addison. Who cheapens life, abates the fear of death. Young. The brace of large greyh…

ist about; to surround; to encircle. In the flowers that wreathe the sparkling bowl, Fell adders hiss. Prior.