verb

• (intransitive, veterinary medicine) To get an overdistended rumen, talking of a ruminant.
• (intransitive) To become distended; to swell up.
  "if a Person of a firm Conſtitution begins to bloat, and from being warm grows cold, his Fibres grow weak, Anxiety and Palpitations of the Heart are a ſign of weak Fibres"
• (dated) To preserve by slightly salting and lightly smoking.
  "bloated herring"

noun

• (veterinary medicine) Pathological overdistention of rumen with gas in a ruminant.
• (figurative) Wasteful use of space or other resources.
  "Adding an e-mail feature to this simple text editor would be pointless bloat."
• (derogatory, slang, dated) A worthless, dissipated fellow.
• (collective) A group of hippopotamuses.
  "A group of hippos is called a bloat."

adj

• (obsolete) bloated.
  "Let the bloat king tempt you again to bed"