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Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bag \Bag\, v. i.
   1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags
      from containing morbid matter.

   2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

   3. To become pregnant. [Obs.] --Warner. (Alb. Eng. ).

Bag \Bag\, 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.

   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.

   3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair
      behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]

   4. The quantity of game bagged.

   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.

   {Bag and baggage}, all that belongs to one.

   {To give one the bag}, to disappoint him. [Obs.] --Bunyan.

Bag \Bag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bagged}(?); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Bagging}]
   1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.

   2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag
      game.

   3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.

            A bee bagged with his honeyed venom.  --Dryden.

Source : WordNet®

bag
     v 1: capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants"
     2: hang loosely, like an empty bag
     3: bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear
        to bulge [syn: {bulge}]
     4: take unlawfully [syn: {pocket}]
     5: put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
     [also: {bagging}, {bagged}]

bag
     n 1: a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his
          laundry into a large bag"
     2: the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually
        by one person); "his bag included two deer"
     3: place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled
        to get back to the bag" [syn: {base}]
     4: a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or
        accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her
        bag and found a comb" [syn: {handbag}, {pocketbook}, {purse}]
     5: the quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of
        popcorn" [syn: {bagful}]
     6: a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;
        "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him" [syn: {traveling
        bag}, {grip}, {suitcase}]
     7: an ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag
        for her money" [syn: {old bag}]
     8: mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) [syn: {udder}]
     9: an activity that you like or at which you are superior;
        "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning
        to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish" [syn: {cup
        of tea}, {dish}]
     [also: {bagging}, {bagged}]
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