English English Dictionary
English English Dictionary
The online English-English dictionary from The Project Gutenberg
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Bag
(v. t.)
To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag
game.
Bag
(n.)
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.
Bag
(n.)
The quantity of game bagged.
Bag
(n.)
A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind,
by way of ornament.
Bag
(n.)
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.
Bag
(n.)
A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal
or of money.
A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
Bagasse
(n.)
Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then
dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.
Bagatelle
(n.)
A trifle; a thing of no importance.
Bagatelle
(n.)
A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end,
cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod
held in the hand of the player.
Baggage
(n.)
The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
Baggage
(n.)
A romping, saucy girl.
Baggage
(n.)
A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
Baggage
(n.)
A man of bad character.
Baggage
(n.)
Trashy talk.
Baggage
(n.)
The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler
carries with him on a journey; luggage.
Baggage
(n.)
Purulent matter.
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway
station or upon a line of public travel.
Baggager
(n.)
One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower.
Baggala
(n.)
A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian
Ocean.