Pouch

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
  • n. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
  • n. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
  • n. A sealed plastic or foil container used in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.
  • n. Something resembling a bag in shape: one's pouches under one's eyes.
  • n. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
  • n. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.
  • n. Scots A pocket.
  • n. Archaic A purse for small coins.
  • v. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
  • v. To cause to resemble a pouch.
  • v. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.
  • verb-intransitive. To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring
  • n. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young
  • n. Any pocket or bag shaped object; as, a cheek pouch
  • v. To enclose within a pouch.
  • v. To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag
  • n. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch.
  • n. A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
  • n. A sac or bag for carrying food or young.
  • n. A cyst or sac containing fluid.
  • n. A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
  • n. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
  • v. To put or take into a pouch.
  • v. To swallow; -- said of fowls.
  • v. To pout.
  • v. To pocket; to put up with.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
  • n. A mail-pouch. See mail-bag.
  • n. In zoology, a dilated or sac-like part, capable of containing something.
  • n. In botany, a silicle; also, some other purselike vessel, as the sac at the base of some petals.
  • n. In anatomy, a cæcum, especially when dilated or saccular, or some similar sac or recess. See cut under lamprey.
  • n. A bag for shot or bullets; hence, after the introduction of cartridges, a cartridge-box.
  • n. 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.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. put into a small bag
  • v. swell or protrude outwards
  • n. an enclosed space
  • n. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
  • v. send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
  • n. a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things
  • Verb Form
    pouched    pouches    pouching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    bag    enclosed space    cavity    mail    get off   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    paunch    swallow    pout    pocket   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    bouche    couch    crouch    fouch    grouch    ouch    slouch    vouch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bag    purse    belt    sack    wallet    pocket    glove    sheath    holster    pack