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The bagpipe; as, the pipes of Lucknow.

One who plays on a pipe, or the like, esp. on a bagpipe. "The hereditary piper and his sons." Macaulay.

Personal property and effects; baggage or luggage. [Slang, Southwestern U.S.]

Of or pertaining to plutocracy; as, plutocratic ideas. Bagehot.

To steal or pocket game, or to carry it away privately, as in a bag; to kill or destroy game contrary to law, especially by night; to hunt or fish unlawfully; as, to poach for rabbits or for salmon.

A bag pudding; a name of reproach or ridicule formerly applied by the Scotch to the English.

A bag or pouch; especially; a small bag inserted in a garment for carrying small articles, particularly money; hence, figuratively, money; wealth.

A bag; a pouch. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Tusser.

Any fabaceous shrub of the genus Gastrolobium, the herbage of which is poisonous to stock; also, any species of several related genera, as Oxylobium, Gompholobium, etc.

A bag; a sack; a pocket. "He drew a dial from his poke." Shak. They wallowed as pigs in a poke. Chaucer.

A kind of coarse bagging, -- used for coal sacks. Weale.

A bag or case, usually of leather, for carrying wearing apparel, etc., on journeys. Thackeray.

ir, an old game at cards, in which each player a hand of three cards. B. Jonson. -- Post bag, a mail bag. -- Post bill, a bill of letters mailed by a postmaster. -- Post chaise, or Post coach, a carriage usually with four wheels, for the conveyance of travelers who travel post. Post day, a day on which the mall arri…

others. -- Pot hunter, one who kills anything and everything that will help to fill has bag; also, a hunter who shoots game for the table or for the market. -- Pot metal. (a) The metal from which iron pots are made, different from common pig iron. (b) An alloy of copper with lead used for making large vessels for va…

A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

A soft cushion, esp. one circular in shape and not, like a pilow, of bag form, or thin at the edges.

The cabbage rose (Rosa centifolia).

A kind of perfume in the form of a powder, formerly much used, -- often in little bags. Smells of incense, ambergris, and pulvillios. Addison.

of toiling for his subsistence. I. Taylor. We shall dread a blow from the punitive hand. Bagehot.

and impertinent person. I found my place taken by an ill-bred, awkward puppy with a money bag under each arm. Addison.