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

Having a pouch mouth; blobber-lipped.

A small British and American pond snail (Bulinus hypnorum).

Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.

See Pouncet box.

A superior kind of souchong tea. De Colange.

Same as Capoch.

A dance or game played by boys, requiring active exercise. [Obs.] Gayton.

ving teeth of the same number and form as in man, and possessing neither a tail nor cheek pouches. The name is applied esp. to species of the genus Hylobates, and is sometimes used as a general term for all Quadrumana. The higher forms, the gorilla, chimpanzee, and ourang, are often called anthropoid apes or man apes.…

and Papio; the dog-faced ape. Baboons have dog-like muzzles and large canine teeth, cheek pouches, a short tail, and naked callosities on the buttocks. They are mostly African. See Mandrill, and Chacma, and Drill an ape.

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

up in store; to deposit for safe keeping; to stow; to place; to put. "He bestowed it in a pouch." Sir W. Scott. See that the women are bestowed in safety. Byron.

Having two little bags, sacs, or pouches.

An inguinal hernia; esp. that incomplete variety in which the hernial pouch descends only as far as the groin, forming a swelling there like a bubo.

the fase; esp., the malar bone. -- Cheek by jowl, side by side; very intimate. -- Cheek pouch (Zoöl.), a sacklike dilation of the cheeks of certain monkeys and rodents, used for holding food. -- Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block. -- Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a ma…

A substance, of the consistence of butter or honey, taken from glands in the anal pouch of the civet (Viverra civetta). It is of clear yellowish or brownish color, of a strong, musky odor, offensive when undiluted, but agreeble when a small portion is mixed with another substance. It is used as a perfume.…

A small bag or pouch. [Obs.] Halliwell.

The pouchlike enlargement of the gullet of birds, serving as a receptacle for food; the craw.

A pouch or sac without opening, usually membranous and containing morbid matter, which is accidentally developed in one of the natural cavaties or in the substance of an organ.

Indian carnivorous mammal (Prionodon gracilis), resembling the civets, but without scent pouches. It is handsomely spotted.