Anagrams of: COTTONBALL

• large tough nonrigid bag filled with gas or heated air

• small thin inflatable rubber bag with narrow neck

• ride in a hot-air balloon

• become inflated

• back and sides of a hog salted and dried or smoked; usually sliced thin and fried

• English scientist and Franciscan monk who stressed the importance of experimentation; first showed that air is required for combustion and first used lenses to correct vision (1220-1292)

• English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626)

• a fluid agent (gas or liquid) that produces cooling; especially one used to cool a system by transferring heat away from one part to another

• A bank, especially that of Venice; formerly used to indicate bank money, as distinguished from the current money when it has become depreciated.

• Being or relating to a type of court involving a bench of judges. Quite often, the Banco Court is an appeals court.

• soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state

• fabric woven from cotton fibers

• erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers

• thread made of cotton fibers

• take a liking to

• a document listing the alternatives that is used in voting

• a choice that is made by counting the number of people in favor of each alternative

• vote by ballot

• a group of countries in special alliance

• a measuring instrument for measuring angles to a celestial body; similar to a sextant but with 45 degree calibration