Found 4 hits - Term: pouch, Database: *, Strategy: exact
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pouch \pouch\, v. t. imp. p. p. pouched; p. pr. vb. n.
pouching.
1. to put or take into a pouch.
1913 webster
2. to swallow; -- said of fowls. --derham.
1913 webster
3. to pout. obs. --ainsworth.
1913 webster
4. to pocket; to put up with. r. --sir w. scott.
1913 webster
see also:
pouched pouching
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
pouch \pouch\, n. f. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of
teutonic origin. see poke a bag, and cf. poach to cook
eggs, to plunder.
1. a small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for
money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
1913 webster
2. 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.
1913 webster
pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
1913 webster
see also:
poke poach pouch mouth
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
pouch
n 1: a small or medium size bag-like container for holding or
carrying things
2: an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of
air" syn: sac, sack, pocket
3: anatomy saclike structure in any of various animals as a
marsupial or gopher or pelican syn: pocket
v 1: put into a small bag
2: send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
3: swell or protrude outwards; "his eyes bulged with surprise"
syn: bulge, protrude
see also:
sac sack pocket bulge protrude
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
30 moby thesaurus words for "pouch":
bag, balloon, beetle, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bouge, bug,
bulge, dilate, distend, goggle, jut, overhang, pocket, poke, pooch,
pop, pout, project, protrude, purse, reticule, round out, sack,
stand out, stick out, swell, swell out
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