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Pronunciation : Bag
Part of Speech : n.
Etymology : [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.]
Definition : 1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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

4. The quantity of game bagged.

5. (Com.)

Defn: 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.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bag
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

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

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

t. [imp. & p. p. Bagged(p. pr. & vb. n. Bagging]
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913

Pronunciation : Bag
Part of Speech : v.
Definition : 1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.

2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] Chaucer.

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

i.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913