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Bag (băg), n. [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.]
1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, “a bag of meal or of money”.
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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”.
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3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]
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4. The quantity of game bagged.
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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”.
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Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. -- To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.
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Bag, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bagged (băgd); p. pr. & vb. n. Bagging]
1. To put into a bag; as, “to bag hops”.
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2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, “to bag an army; to bag game”.
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3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
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A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden.
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Bag, v. i.
1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, “the skin bags from containing morbid matter”.
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2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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3. To become pregnant. [Obs.] Warner. (Alb. Eng.).
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Udder (?), n. [OE. uddir, AS. ūder; akin to D. uijer, G. euter, OHG. ūtar, ūtiro, Icel. jūgr, Sw. jufver, jur, Dan. yver, L. uber, Gr. οὗθαρ, Skr. ūdhar. √216. Cf. Exuberant.]
1. (Anat.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other quadrupeds. See Mamma.
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A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. Shak.
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2. One of the breasts of a woman. [R.]
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Yon Juno of majestic size,
With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. Pope.
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