Word Meanings - BALLOONRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aëronautics.

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• ASCENDANCY; ASCENDANCE
  See ASCENDENCY
• BALLOONED
  Swelled out like a balloon.
• BALLOONING SPIDER
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
• ASCENDENCY
  Governing or controlling influence; domination; power. An undisputed ascendency. Macaulay. Custom has an ascendency over the understanding. Watts. Syn. -- Control; authority; influence; sway; dominion; prevalence; domination.
• PRACTICER
  1. One who practices, or puts in practice; one who customarily performs certain acts. South. 2. One who exercises a profession; a practitioner. 3. One who uses art or stratagem. B. Jonson.
• ASCENDIBLE
  Capable of being ascended; climbable.
• BALLOONING
  The process of temporarily raising the value of a stock, as by fictitious sales. (more info) 1. The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
• BALLOON FISH
  A fish of the genus Diodon or the genus Tetraodon, having the power of distending its body by taking air or water into its dilatable esophagus. See Globefish, and Bur fish.
• PRACTICED
  1. Experienced; expert; skilled; as, a practiced marksman. "A practiced picklock." Ld. Lytton. 2. Used habitually; learned by practice.
• BALLOONER
  One who goes up in a balloon; an aëronaut.
• ASCENDING
  Rising; moving upward; as, an ascending kite. -- As*cend"ing*ly, adv. Ascending latitude , the increasing latitude of a planet. Ferguson. -- Ascending line , the line of relationship traced backward or through one's ancestors. One's father and
• BALLOON
  A ball or globe on the top of a pillar, church, etc., as at St. Paul's, in London. (more info) 1. A bag made of silk or other light material, and filled with hydrogen gas or heated air, so as to rise and float in the atmosphere; especially, one
• PRACTICE
  A easy and concise method of applying the rules of arithmetic to questions which occur in trade and business. (more info) also, practique, LL. practica, fr. Gr. Practical, and cf. Pratique, 1. Frequently repeated or customary action;
• BALLOONIST
  An aëronaut.
• ASCEND
  Etym: 1. To move upward; to mount; to go up; to rise; -- opposed to Ant: descend. Higher yet that star ascends. Bowring. I ascend unto my father and your father. John xx. 17. Note: Formerly used with up. The smoke of it ascended up to
• BALLOONRY
  The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aëronautics.
• ASCENDABLE
  Capable of being ascended.
• ASCENDANT; ASCENDENT
  1. Rising toward the zenith; above the horizon. The constellation . . . about that time ascendant. Browne. 2. Rising; ascending. Ruskin. 3. Superior; surpassing; ruling. An ascendant spirit over him. South. The ascendant community obtained
• ASCENDANT
  The horoscope, or that degree of the ecliptic which rises above the horizon at the moment of one's birth; supposed to have a commanding influence on a person's life and fortune. Note: Hence the phrases To be in the ascendant, to have commanding
• PASSIVE BALLOON; PASSIVE AEROPLANE
  One unprovided with motive power.
• MALPRACTICE
  Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
• SOUNDING BALLOON
  An unmanned balloon sent aloft for meteorological or aëronautic purposes.
• PILOT BALLOON
  A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents.
• AERONAUTICS
  The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aërial navigation; ballooning.
• REASCEND
  To rise, mount, or climb again.