-adj. 4. billowed, billowing, puffed out, ballooning; expanded, overexpanded, stretched, stretched out. ballot, n. 1. slate, ticket; voting ticket, Brit, voting paper, voting ball; show of hands, yeas and nays.
2. vote, voice, say, Chiefly Brit, plumper; suffrage, franchise; referendum, voting, election, poll, plebiscite; placet, Inf. the go ahead; vox populi.
-v. 3. vote, cast a vote, elect, poll; choose, decide, pick, opt; draw lots, pick straws, balm, n. 1. ointment, salve, lotion, cream, oil, balsam, unguent; liniment, embrocation, demulcent, lenitive, Med. emollient, Pharm. cerate.
2. perfume, fragrance, scent, aroma, bouquet, incense, sweet smell, aromatic fragrance.
3. remedy, cure, cure-all, panacea; (all in response to grief, sorrow, etc.) comfort, condolence, consolation, commiseration, sympathy, soothing words. balminess, n. 1. fragrancy, aromaticness, redolence, odoriferousness, odorousness.
2. calmness, fairness, mildness, temperateness, pleasantness; gentleness, peacefulness, tranquility; clearness, brightness, sunniness, rosiness, balmy, adj. 1. mild, calm, fair, temperate, clement, pleasant; gentle, peaceful, tranquil, halcyon; clear, bright, sunny, rosy.
2. soothing, soft, lenitive, palliative, alleviative, miti-gative, assuasive, sedative; healing, balsamic, demulcent, emollient, vulnerary.
3. fragrant, aromatic, redolent, odoriferous, odorous; ambrosial, sweet-smelling, sweet-scented, scented, perfumed.
4. Also barmy Slang, eccentric, queer, odd, peculiar. See eccentric [def. 2). baluster, n. 1. post, spoke, spindle, rod, bar, pole; column, pillar, stanchion, pile, pier, upright, vertical: leg, support, prop.
2. balusters railing, rail, banister, Archit. balustrade, Building Trades, runner; handrail, guardrail, barrier, bamboozle, v. 1. Often bamboozle into delude, deceive, beguile, mislead, U.S. SI. con; hoodwink, pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, cozen, bluff, take in; fool, befool, dupe, hoax, humbug, Brit. Inf. gammon; seduce, charm, flatter, lie to; lure, allure, entice, induce, inveigle.
2. trick, spoof, outwit, overreach, circumvent, get around, put one over on; swindle, cheat, defraud, fleece, rook, gull, chouse, stack the deck, Inf. gyp, SI. gaff; pluck, mulct, victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do.
3. perplex, puzzle, baffle, mystify; bewilder, befuddle, confuse, mix up. bamboozler, n. 1. deceiver, deluder, beguiler, hoodwinker; duper, hoaxer, humbugger; fraud, fake, phony, imposter, liar; pretender, charlatan, quack, mountebank, empiric.
2. trickster, prankster, joker, jokester, practical joker; swindler, cheat, cheater, defrauder, rook, fleecer, gyp, gypper; sharper, sharpie, shark, knave, scoundrel, rogue, villain, ban, v. 1. prohibit, forbid, interdict, outlaw, taboo, proscribe; disallow, reject, veto; prevent, preclude, make impossible, Archaic, forfend, inhibit; ostracize, exclude, shut out, debar, bar, segregate; banish, exile, expel, throw out, kick out, deport. -n. 2. prohibition, interdiction, interdict, forbid-dance, outlawry, taboo, proscription, embargo; excommunication, banishment, exclusion, exception, ostracism, segregation, debarment, omission; disallowance, rejection, veto; prevention, preclusion, inhibition.