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A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.

An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.

language spoken by this people. Used also adjectively. [Written also Wallons.] "A base Walloon . . . thrust Talbot with a spear." Shak. Walloon guard, the bodyguard of the Spanish monarch; -- so called because formerly consisting of Walloons.

A dirigible balloon.

An aërial navigator; a balloonist.

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.

A balloon.

Aërial navigation; the art of raising and guiding balloons in the air.

Any device, as a balloon, aëroplane, etc., for floating in, or flying through, the air.

An abnormal condition due to deficient aëration of the blood, as in balloon sickness, mountain sickness. -- An`ox*æ"mic, *e"mic (#), a.

sion; connected with ascent; ascensive; tending upward; as, the ascensional power of a balloon. Ascensional difference (Astron.), the difference between oblique and right ascension; -- used chiefly as expressing the difference between the time of the rising or setting of a body and six o'clock, or six hours from its me…

Any heavy matter put into the car of a balloon to give it steadiness.

In a balloon, the braced wooden ring attached to the suspension ropes at the bottom, functionally analogous to the keel of a ship.

A round, low-crowned felt hat; a wideawake. "The undignified billycocks and pantaloons of the West." B. H. Chamberlain.

Trousers; pantaloons. [Colloq.] Breeches buoy, in the life-saving service, a pair of canvas breeches depending from an annular or beltlike life buoy which is usually of cork. This contrivance, inclosing the person to be rescued, is hung by short ropes from a block which runs upon the hawser stretched from the ship to t…

ts body with water or air, so as to resemble a chestnut bur; -- called also ball fish, balloon fish, and swellfish.

crushed in together; as, a flue in the boiler of a steam engine sometimes collapses. A balloon collapses when the gas escapes from it. Maunder.

White or pale, as the effect of fear, or as the natural complexion. Thou cream-faced loon. Shak.

Capable of being directed; steerable; as, a dirigible balloon.

A saloon or hall where a council is held, in Oriental countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.