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cempesit balloon, containing and uniting the gas-compart- ments or sub-balloons.
balloon-ship b3'luun,$ip w. a ship equipt with balloons or ballooning-apparatus, as for coast-defense.
balloon-shooting b9'Joun,$uu-tirj n. the practis of shoot- ing at balloons, as with a rifle.
balloon-sound b3'}oun,saond tr. sound or probe by means of balloons; investigate by the aid of a sounding-balloon: as, to *balloon-sound a region of the atmosfere.
balloon-tent ba'luun^ent n. a tent or portable ledge of can- vas used for sheltering or housing a balloon.
balloon-trip ba'luun^sip n. a tip or voyage in a balloon; a balloon-flight; a balloon-journey.
balloon-valve ba'luun/vaelv n. [also spelt balloomvalv] a gas-valv for use in connection with a balloon.
balloon-varnish b3'luun,va:z-ni$ n. a varnish prepared for the gas-vessels of balloons, see varnish.
balloon-voyage ba'Joun/vei-ids n. a veyage or journey in a balloon; a balloon-tjip.
balloon- wheel ba'loun/uiil n. (in fireworks} obsolete) a shell; a bem.
balloon-work b9'luun,wB:zk . work of any kind in con- nection with balloons or ballooning; also, the practis of ballooning itself.
balloon-wrecking b3'loun,zekir) n. the act of wrecking a balloon; rupturing a balloon, as by rifle-shots, and causing a collapse, smashup, wreck, or downfall.
bank baerjk . a pile or mass.
bank of clouds, a cloud-bank.
bank baerjk tr. incline or slant an aeroplane flying-machine laterally (with the inner side downward) in turning or go- ing round a curv, so as to take advantage of the resistance of the bank or mass of air upon which the machine is thus forced to act.
banking 'bsenkirj n.
1. the action of driving an aeroplane flyingsmiachine in a tilted or laterally inclined manner, with the inner side downward, tuhile rounding a curv. see bank (verb).
2. a bank or upright resistant mass, as of air : as, the air fermd a natural *banking as the aeroplane swept round.
banner-cloud 'baen^ktcmd n. banner-like cloud, streaming
horizontally from a mountain-tep. barb barzb n. one of the pointed processes, of the first order,
on either side of the rachis of a bird's f ether; one of the
rami of the vane of a fether. barber 'ba:z-b3z n. a stjeng cutting wind loaded with par-
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