Pouch

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  • noun. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
  • noun. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
  • noun. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
  • noun. A sealed plastic or foil container used for packaging food or drink.
  • noun. Something resembling a bag in shape.
  • noun. A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
  • noun. A pocketlike space in the body.
  • noun. A pocket.
  • noun. A small purse for coins.
  • intransitive verb. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to resemble a pouch.
  • intransitive verb. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.
  • intransitive verb. To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A bag or sack of any sort; especially, a poke or pocket, or something answering the same purpose, as the bag carried at the girdle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and serving as a purse to carry small articles.
  • noun. A mail-pouch. See mail-bag.
  • noun. In zoology, a dilated or sac-like part, capable of containing something.
  • noun. In botany, a silicle; also, some other purselike vessel, as the sac at the base of some petals.
  • noun. In anatomy, a cæcum, especially when dilated or saccular, or some similar sac or recess. See cut under lamprey.
  • noun. A bag for shot or bullets; hence, after the introduction of cartridges, a cartridge-box.
  • noun. A small bulkhead or partition in a ship's hold to prevent grain or other loose cargo from shifting.
  • To pocket; put into a pouch or pocket; inclose as in a pouch or sack.
  • To swallow, as a bird or fish.
  • To pocket; submit quietly to.
  • To fill the pockets of; provide with money.
  • To purse up.
  • To form a pouch; bag.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To put or take into a pouch.
  • transitive verb. To swallow; -- said of fowls.
  • transitive verb. To pout.
  • transitive verb. To pocket; to put up with.
  • noun. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag
  • noun. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch.
  • noun. A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
  • noun. A sac or bag for carrying food or young.
  • noun. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • noun. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • noun. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
  • noun. a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring
  • noun. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young
  • noun. Any pocket or bag shaped object; as, a cheek pouch
  • verb. To enclose within a pouch.
  • verb. To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. put into a small bag
  • verb. swell or protrude outwards
  • noun. an enclosed space
  • noun. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
  • verb. send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
  • noun. a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
  • Word Usage
    "The end of a metaphysical debate timprov: So if you make something that's half muffin and half kangaroo, but then you only frost it inside the pouch, is it a muffin or a cupcake?"
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    bouche  couch  crouch  fouch  grouch  
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    apron  bag  belt  blanket  boot  
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    bag  balloon  beetle  belly  belly out  
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