About The Word Pouch
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Pouch
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What's The Definition Of Pouch?
[n] (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
[n] a small or medium size bag-like container for holding or carrying things [n] an enclosed space [v] swell or protrude outwards; "His eyes bulged with surprise" [v] send by pouch [v] put into a pouch Synonyms | Synonyms for Pouch: bulge | pocket | pocket | protrude | sac | sack Related Terms | Find terms related to Pouch: bag | balloon | beetle | belly | belly out | bilge | billow | bouge | bug | bulge | dilate | distend | goggle | jut | overhang | pocket | poke | pooch | pop | pout | project | protrude | purse | reticule | round out | sack | stand out | stick out | swell | swell out See Also | atrial auricle | auricle | auricula | auricula atrii | auricular appendage | auricular appendix | bag | bag | bulk | cavity | change form | change shape | cheek pouch | deform | enclosed space | gastric mill | get off | gizzard | mail | mail pouch | mailbag | marsupium | pocket | sac | scrotum | sporran | tobacco pouch | utricle | utriculus | ventriculus Pouch In Webster's Dictionary \Pouch\, n. [F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of
Teutonic origin. See {Poke} a bag, and cf. {Poach} to cook
eggs, to plunder.]
1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for
money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as:
(a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in
ridicule.
(b) (Zo["o]l.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young;
as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the
pouch of marsupials.
(c) (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid. --S. Sharp.
(d) (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's
purse.
(e) A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain,
etc., from shifting.
{Pouch mouth}, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
\Pouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pouched}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pouching}.] 1. To put or take into a pouch. 2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. --Derham. 3. To pout. [Obs.] --Ainsworth. 4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] --Sir W. Scott. |
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