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Bag   /bæg/   Listen
noun
Bag  n.  
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.) 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.)


verb
Bag  v. t.  (past & past part. bagged; pres. part. bagging)  
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."


Bag  v. i.  
1.
To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
2.
To swell with arrogance. (Obs.)
3.
To become pregnant. (Obs.)





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"Bag" Quotes from Famous Books



... there was a knock at my room-door, and I was informed that a gentleman had come to see me. When we had finished prayer, it was found to be a brother from Tetbury, who had brought from Barnstaple L1 2s. 6d. for the Orphans. Thus we have L1 14s. 6d., with which I must return the letter-bag to the Orphan-Houses, looking ...
— Answers to Prayer - From George Mueller's Narratives • George Mueller
... sheltering on the port side from the swell, held on by two ropes at the stern and bow. Women went up the side first, climbing rope ladders with a noose round their shoulders to help their ascent; men passengers scrambled next, and the crew last of all. The baby went up in a bag with the opening tied up: it had been quite well all the time, and never suffered any ill effects from its cold journey in the night. We set foot on deck with very thankful hearts, grateful beyond the possibility ...
— The Loss of the SS. Titanic • Lawrence Beesley
... pause. The servant opportunely entered with a small parcel of books, a note to Mr. Merton, and that most blessed of all blessed things in the country,—the letter-bag. ...
— Alice, or The Mysteries, Book V • Edward Bulwer Lytton
... straw-hatted postman lurched along the gravel drive with the morning's post. He touched his hat to Dick, delivered the Manor House bag into his ...
— Viviette • William J. Locke
... the parting of the ways, which he faced with a courage unusual in one of his years. There was little to be done. He packed his few belongings in a bag that had been his mother's. The lad possessed one suit besides the one he wore, and this he stowed away as best he could, determining to press it out ...
— The Circus Boys on the Flying Rings • Edgar B. P. Darlington


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