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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



... the bag, Johnny, about everybody. They were all beforehand with you: papa, Lord Summerhays, Bentley and all. Dont you let ...
— Misalliance • George Bernard Shaw
... throat, in the vain attempt to reason them out of it. I had got Tom pinned up in a corner, whence, I told him, he should not escape till he had done his appointed task. Meantime, Fanny had possessed herself of my work-bag, and was rifling its contents—and spitting into it besides. I told her to let it alone, but to no purpose, of course. 'Burn it, Fanny!' cried Tom: and THIS command she hastened to obey. I sprang to snatch it from ...
— Agnes Grey • Anne Bronte
... you properly into a nice little fever and inflammation. Why, what a hand you have! And your pulse! Here, lie down at once,' as he formed a couch with the help of a wrapper and bag. Arthur passively accepted his care; but as the chill again crept through his veins, he stretched out his ...
— Heartsease - or Brother's Wife • Charlotte M. Yonge
... can't? 'Can't' is a 'bad word,' you know." She got up—a big, heavy woman, in a gray bag of a dress that only reached to the top of her boots—and stood with her hands on her hips; her gray hair was twisted into a small, tight knot at the back of her head, and her face looked like iron that had once been molten and had cooled into roughened immobility. It was not an unamiable face; ...
— The Iron Woman • Margaret Deland
... thin hand at the neck of her dress. She drew from it a chain with a silk bag attached. Out of the bag she took first a ...
— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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