Definition of bladder
- n. - 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.
- n. - Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or
a thin, watery fluid.
- n. - A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
- n. - Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- v. t. - To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
- v. t. - To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
- n. - 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.
- n. - Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or
a thin, watery fluid.
- n. - A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
- n. - Anything inflated, empty, or unsound.
- v. t. - To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate.
- v. t. - To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.