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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.

A genus (Utricularia) of aquatic or marshy plants, which usually bear numerous vesicles in the divisions of the leaves. These serve as traps for minute animals. See Ascidium.

Having bladders; also, resembling a bladder.

rm is sometimes applied to the spire of grasses. The crimson dulse . . . with its waving blade. Percival. First the blade, then ear, after that the full corn in the ear. Mark iv. 28.

The scapula. See Blade, 4.

Having a blade or blades; as a two-bladed knife. Decking with liquid pearl the bladed grass. Shak.

A long, thin, marine fish of Europe (Trichiurus lepturus); the ribbon fish.

A sword cutler. [Obs.]

Consisting of blades. [R.] "Blady grass." Drayton.

A slope or declivity in a manege ground down which a horse is made to gallop, to give suppleness to his haunches.

A genus of aroideous plants, of which some species are cultivated for their immense leaves (which are often curiously blotched with white and red), and others (in Polynesia) for food.

A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

Forwards; towards the head or anterior extremity of the body; opposed to caudad.

To clothe. [Obs.] Holland.

An order of the Entomostraca.

A special branch, resembling a leaf, as in the apparent foliage of the broom (Ruscus) and of the common cultivated smilax (Myrsiphillum).

To raise, as a rampart, so as to shelter interior works commanded from some higher point.

The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy's fire from any point within range, or from any works which may be erected. Farrow.

To fight like gladiators; to contend fiercely; to dispute violently. [Obs.] Digladiating like Æschines and Demosthenes. Hales.

Act of digladiating. [Obs.] "Sore digladiations and contest." Evelyn.