GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Pouch , n. [F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a bag, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder.]
    A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
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   That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule. (b) (Zool.) 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.
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   Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
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   Pouch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pouched ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouching.]
   To put or take into a pouch.
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   To swallow; -- said of fowls.
   Derham.
   
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   To pout. [Obs.]
   Ainsworth.
   
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   To pocket; to put up with. [R.]
   Sir W. Scott.
   
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