Word Meanings - AERONAUTICS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The science or art of ascending and sailing in the air, as by means of a balloon; aerial navigation; ballooning.

• Sailless
  Destitute of sails.
• Ballooned
  Swelled out like a balloon.
• Sailmaker
  One whose occupation is to make or repair sails.
• Ballooner
  One who goes up in a balloon; an aeronaut.
• 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.
• Ballooning
  The art or practice of managing balloons or voyaging in them.
• Aeriality
  The state of being aerial; unsubstantiality.
• Ballooning spider
  A spider which has the habit of rising into the air. Many kinds ( esp. species of Lycosa) do this while young by ejecting threads of silk until the force of the wind upon them carries the spider aloft.
• Balloonist
  An aeronaut.
• AERIALSICKNESS
  A sickness felt by aëronauts due to high speed of flights and rapidity in changing altitudes, combining some symptoms of mountain sickness and some of seasickness.
• Ascended
  of Ascend
• Balloonry
  The art or practice of ascending in a balloon; aeronautics.
• ASCENDANCYASCENDANCE
  Same as Ascendency.
• Ascending
  of Ascend
• Navigation
  The act of navigating; the act of passing on water in ships or other vessels; the state of being navigable.

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