A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]
The quantity of game bagged.
A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.
To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.
To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).
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