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A ladder; a series of steps; a means of ascending. [Obs.]

Serving as an aid in clambering; as, a scaling ladder, used in assaulting a fortified place.

e to the East, but now cultivated largely in the south of Europe and in the West Indies. Bladder senna. (Bot.) See under Bladder. -- Wild senna (Bot.), the Cassia Marilandica, growing in the United States, the leaves of which are used medicinally, like those of the officinal senna.

Halyards; 101 Spanker Vangs; 102 Spanker Boom; 103 Spanker Boom Topping Lift; 104 Jacob's Ladder, or Stern Ladder; 105 Spanker Sheet; 106 Cutwater; 107 Starboard Bow; 108 Starboard Beam; 109 Water Line; 110 Starboard Quarter; 111 Rudder.

A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft.

The air bladder of a fish; as, cod sounds are an esteemed article of food.

unds, and by its contraction tends to close, a natural opening; as, the sphincter of the bladder.

A rung, or round, of a ladder.

The round of a ladder. [R.] I ascend at one [ladder] of six hundred and thirty-nine staves. Dr. J. Campbell (E. Brown's Travels).

One of the two upright pieces of a ladder. [Obs.] To climd by the rungs and the stalks. Chaucer.

One of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel; one of the bars or rounds of a rack, a ladder, etc.

A ladder. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] [Written also stey.]

e of a set of rests, for the foot in ascending or descending, as a stair, or a round of a ladder. The breadth of every single step or stair should be never less than one foot. Sir H. Wotton.

A calculous concretion, especially one in the kidneys or bladder; the disease arising from a calculus.

The rung or round of a ladder. [Obs.]

America, Europe, and Asia. Caviare is prepared from the roe, and isinglass from the air bladder.

ansion of the inclosed substance; as, the legs swell in dropsy; a bruised part swells; a bladder swells by inflation.

The sound, or air bladder, of a fish.

To be attentive to; to note carefully; to attend to. Being to descend A ladder much in height, I did not tend My way well down. Chapman. To tend a vessel (Naut.), to manage an anchored vessel when the tide turns, so that in swinging she shall not entangle the cable.

nesmus, a similar sensation as to the evacuation of urine, referred to the region of the bladder.