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itself. [Formerly written also turnep.] Swedish turnip (Bot.), a kind of turnip. See Ruta-baga. -- Turnip flea (Zoöl.), a small flea-beetle (Haltica, or Phyllotreta, striolata), which feeds upon the turnip, and often seriously injures it. It is black with a stripe of yellow on each elytron. The name is also applied to…

The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma. A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. Shak.

Resembling a utricle or bag, whether large or minute; -- said especially with reference to the condition of certain substances, as sulphur, selenium, etc., when condensed from the vaporous state and deposited upon cold bodies, in which case they assume the form of small globules filled with liquid.

A little sac, or bag; a utricle; especially, a part of the membranous labyrinth of the ear. See the Note under Ear.

r material, for containing the clothes, toilet articles, etc., of a traveler; a traveling bag; a portmanteau.

A close railway car for baggage. See the Note under Car, 2. [Eng.]

The salted stomach of a calf, used in making cheese; a rennet bag. [Prov. Eng.]

Long live, that is, success to; as, vive le roi, long live the king; vive la bagatelle, success to trifles or sport.

Plumbago, or black lead.

A bag or sack for carrying about the person, as a bag for carrying the necessaries for a journey; a knapsack; a beggar's receptacle for charity; a peddler's pack. [His hood] was trussed up in his walet. Chaucer.

r personal decoration. Flowers that their gay wardrobe wear. Milton. With a pair of saddlebags containing his wardrobe. T. Hughes.

A list of passengers in a public vehicle, or of the baggage or gods transported by a common carrier on a land route. When the goods are transported by water, the list is called a bill of lading.

A child; a youth; -- jocosely or in contempt. That awkward whelp with his money bags would have made his entrance. Addison.

rflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage. Black and white. See under Black. -- Flake white, Paris white, etc. See under Flack, Paris, etc. -- White of a seed (Bot.), the albumen. See Albumen, 2. -- White of egg, the viscous pellucid fluid…

Wine apple (Bot.), a large red apple, with firm flesh and a rich, vinous flavor. -- Wine bag, a wine skin. -- Wine biscuit, a kind of sweet biscuit served with wine. -- Wine cask, a cask for holding wine, or which holds, or has held, wine. -- Wine cellar, a cellar adapted or used for storing wine. -- Wine cooler,…

A pack or bag of wool weighing two hundred and forty pounds.

A sack or bag of wool; specifically, the seat of the lord chancellor of England in the House of Lords, being a large, square sack of wool resembling a divan in form.

Cabbages.

Together. [Obs.] "And in a bag all sorts of seeds ysame." Spenser.

A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete. [Written also zampugna.]