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pouch

  [pouch]
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–noun
1. a bag, sack, or similar receptacle, esp. one for small articles or quantities: a tobacco pouch.
2. a small moneybag.
3. a bag for carrying mail.
4. a bag or case of leather, used by soldiers to carry ammunition.
5. something shaped like or resembling a bag or pocket.
6. Chiefly Scot. a pocket in a garment.
7. a baggy fold of flesh under the eye.
8. Anatomy, Zoology. a baglike or pocketlike part; a sac or cyst, as the sac beneath the bill of pelicans, the saclike dilation of the cheeks of gophers, or the receptacle for the young of marsupials.
9. Botany. a baglike cavity.
–verb (used with object)
10. to put into or enclose in a pouch, bag, or pocket; pocket.
11. to arrange in the form of a pouch.
12. (of a fish or bird) to swallow.
–verb (used without object)
13. to form a pouch or a cavity resembling a pouch.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME pouche < AF, var. of OF poche; also poke, poque bag. See poke 2
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pouch   (pouch)   
n.  

  1. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.

  2. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.

  3. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.

  4. A sealed plastic or foil container used in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.

  5. Something resembling a bag in shape: one's pouches under one's eyes.

  6. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.

  7. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.

  8. Scots A pocket.

  9. Archaic A purse for small coins.

v.   pouched, pouch·ing, pouch·es

v.   tr.

  1. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.

  2. To cause to resemble a pouch.

  3. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.

v.   intr.
To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity.

[Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.]
pouch'y adj.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

pouch 
c.1384, "small bag in which money is carried," from Anglo-Fr. puche, O.N.Fr. pouche (13c.), O.Fr. poche, from a Gmc. source (cf. O.E. pocca "bag;" see poke (n.1)). Extended to cavities in animal bodies from c.1450.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: pouch
Pronunciation: 'pauch
Function: noun
: an anatomical structure resembling a bag or pocket pouch filled with bileand gastric juice —Journal of the American Medical Association>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

pouch (pouch)
n.
A pocketlike space in the body.

The American Heritage® Stedman's Medical Dictionary
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