BAG

n. v.

11 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

2.
n.

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.

3.
n.

A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

4.
n.

The quantity of game bagged.

5.
n.

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.

6.
v.

To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

7.
v.

To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.

8.
v.

To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.

9.
v.

To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

10.
v.

To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

11.
v.

To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).


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