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A bag-shaped net for catching fish.

Sugar cane, as it

A trifle; a thing of no importance. Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior.

ks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. We saw our baggage following below. Johnson.

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]

One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.

A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

In a loose, baggy way.

Cloth or other material for bags.

Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.

A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray.

A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

To make to look like a bagpipe. To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.

One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.

The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.

A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.

One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

n exclamation expressive of extreme contempt. Twenty-five years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public. De Quincey.