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   Bladder (blădˈdẽr), n. [OE. bladder, bleddre, AS. blǣdre, blǣddre; akin to Icel. blaðra, 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.]
   
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   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.
   
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   2. Any vesicle or blister, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery fluid.
   
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   3. (Bot.) A distended, membranaceous pericarp.
   
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   4. Anything inflated, empty, or unsound. “To swim with bladders of philosophy.”  Rochester.
   
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   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 (Zool.), 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 Fucus vesiculosus) -- called also bladder tangle. See Wrack.
   
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   Bladder, 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.
   
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   2. To put up in bladders; as, “bladdered lard”.
   
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