BALLOON  , a globular bag of varnished See also:

• SILK

silk or other material impermeable to See also:

• AIR (from an Indo-European root meaning " breathe," " blow ")
• AIR, or ASBEN

air, which, when inflated with See also:

• GAS

gas lighter than See also:

• COMMON

common air, can be used in See also:

• AERONAUTICS

aeronautics, or, according to its See also:

• SIZE

size, &c., for any purpose for which its ability to rise and See also:

• FLOAT (in O. Eng. floc and flota, in the verbal form f eotan; the Teutonic root is flut-, another form of flu-, seen in " flow," cf. " fleet "; the root is seen in Gr. a-M e, to sail, Lat. pluere, to rain; the Lat, fluere and fluctus, wave, is not connect

float in the See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere adapts such a mechanism . " Balloon " in this sense was first used in 1783 in connexion with the invention of the See also:

• BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers Montgolfier, but the word was in earlier use (derived from Ital. ballone, a large See also:

• BALL (in Mid. Eng. bal; the word is probably cognate with " bale," Teutonic in origin, cf. also Lat. falls, and Gr. 7raXXa)
• BALL, JOHN (1585-1640)
• BALL, JOHN (1818-1889)
• BALL, JOHN (d. 1381)
• BALL, SIR ALEXANDER JOHN, BART
• BALL, THOMAS (1819- )

ball) as meaning an actual ball or ball-See also:

• GAME

game, a See also:

• PRIMITIVE

primitive explosive See also:

• BOMB

bomb or firework, a See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of chemical See also:

• RETORT (Lat. retorquere, to twist or turn back)

retort or See also:

• RECEIVER

receiver, and an ornamental globe in See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture; and from the See also:

• APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance and shape of an air balloon the word is also given by See also:

• ANALOGY (Gr. avaXo-yLa, proportion)

analogy to other things, such as a "balloon skirt" in See also:

• DRESS (from the Fr. dresser, to set out, arrange, formed from Lat. directus, arranged, dirigere, to direct, arrange)

dress, "balloon training" in horti- culture . (See AERONAUTICS, and See also:

• FLIGHT

FLIGHT AND FLYING) .