bladder

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BLAD'DER, noun [Eng.a blade; Latin latus.] 1. A thin membranous bag in animals, which serves as the receptacle of some secreted fluid, as the urinary bladder the gall bladder etc. By way of eminence, the word, in common language, denotes the urinary bladder either within the animal, or when taken out and inflated with air. 2. Any vesicle, blister or pustule, especially if filled with air, or a thin, watery liquor. 3. In botany, a distended membranaceous pericarp.
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