[f. BALLOON sb.1]
1. trans. To carry up in, or as in, a balloon.
1792. T. Twining, in Country Clergym. 18th C. (1882), 163. I … never yet seemed so ballooned and above the globe as in ascending this great hill.
1802. G. Colman, Dr. Grins, Reckoning with Time, vi. Thy pinions next Ballooned me from the schools to town.
2. intr. To ascend in a balloon. (trans.; cf. race.)
1821. [see BALLOONING vbl. sb.].
1881. Echo, 3/4. An American balloonist has offered to ‘balloon’ anybody in the United States.
1882. Standard, 2 Feb., 5/7. Blanchard, whose wife was afterwards killed whilst Ballooning, was the first to use Parachutes.
3. intr. To swell or puff out like a balloon.
1841. Orderson, Creol., ix. 99. En bon point that … ballooned to dimensions which … filled her arm chair.
1872. Cornh. Mag., June, 708. His red gown ballooning behind him.
