Bag
Bag (bag) , noun
[Old English bagge; compare Icelandic baggi, and also Old French bague, bundle, Late Latin baga.]
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. [Obsolete]
4.
The quantity of game bagged.
5.
(Commerce) 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.
Collocations (2)
Bag and baggage , all that belongs to one.
To give one the bag , to disappoint him. [Obsolete] — Bunyan
Bag (bagd) , transitive verb
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 , intransitive verb
1.
To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
2.
To swell with arrogance. [Obsolete] — Chaucer
3.
To become pregnant. [Obsolete] — Warner. (Alb. Eng.)