Also 6 blader, 7 blather. [f. prec.]
† 1. intr. To swell out like, or into, a bladder.
c. 1440. in Halliwell, Nugæ Poeticæ, 66. Avaryssia ys a souking sore, He bladdyrth and byldeth alle in my boure.
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., II. x. 23. Everye … pustle that bladereth.
† 2. trans. To inflate; to puff up, swell out.
1610. G. Fletcher, Christ’s Vict., II. lviii. A hollow globe of glasse … She full of emptiness had bladdered. Ibid., I. lxxii. Bladder’d vp with pride of his own merit.
a. 1625. E. Powell, To Fletcher, in Beaum. & Fl.’s Wks., I. li. (Halliw.).
| There’s nothing gain’d by being witty; fame | |
| Gathers but wind to blather up a name. |
1649. G. Daniel, Trinarch., Hen. IV., xxiv. To amuse the world, and bladder out Light Braines. Ibid., Rich. II., xv. Bladder’d with Ambition.
3. To put into a bladder, as ‘bladdered lard.’
Hence Bladdered ppl. a., Bladdering vbl. sb. and ppl. a.
1633. P. Fletcher, Elisa, I. xxvi. Lest these goods might swell my bladder’d minde.
1672. Dryden, Conq. Granada, V. i. 168. ’Till they have burst the bladder’d Cloud. Ibid. (1697), Vergil, Ded. They affect greatness in all they write: but it is a bladdered greatness.
1885. Pall Mall Gaz., 3 Sept., 4. A line of glittering bladdered olive-green seaweed.
1612. Woodall, Surg. Mate (1653), 32. Bladderings of the skin.
