Blad"der , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bladdered (&?;);
p. pr. & vb. n.
Bladdering.]
1. To swell out like a bladder with air; to inflate. [Obs.] G. Fletcher.
2. To put up in bladders; as, bladdered lard.
Blad"der (&?;), n. [OE.
bladder, bleddre, AS. bl&?;dre, bl&?;ddre; akin to Icel. bla&?;ra, SW. bläddra, Dan.
blære, D. blaar, OHG. blātara the bladder in the body of animals, G. blatter blister,
bustule; all fr. the same root as
AS. blāwan, E. blow, to puff. See
Blow to puff.]
1. (Anat.)
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.
2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous
pericarp.
4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. "To swim with bladders of philosophy."
Rochester.
Bladder nut, or Bladder tree (Bot.), a genus of plants (Staphylea)
with bladderlike seed
pods. -- Bladder pod (Bot.), a genus of low herbs (Vesicaria) with
inflated seed pods. --
Bladdor senna (Bot.), a genus of shrubs (Colutea),
with membranaceous, inflated pods. -- Bladder worm (Zoöl.), the larva of any
species of tapeworm (Tænia), found in the flesh
or other parts of animals. See Measle, Cysticercus. -- Bladder wrack (Bot.), the common black rock weed of
the seacoast (Fucus nodosus and F. vesiculosus) -- called also
bladder tangle. See Wrack.
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