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}]