, or Ballon, in a general sense, signifies any spherical hollow body. Thus, with chemists, it denotes a round short-necked vessel, used to receive what is distilled by means of fire: in architecture, a ball or globe on the top of a pillar, &c: and among engineers, a kind of bomb made of pasteboard, and played off in fireworks, in imitation of a real iron bomb-shell.
Air-Balloon. See Aerostation and Air-Balloon.
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Entry taken from A Mathematical and Philosophical Dictionary, by Charles Hutton, 1796.
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