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pouch
[pouch] 
–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. |
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| pouch (pouch) n.
v. tr.
To assume the form of a pouch or pouchlike cavity. [Middle English, from Old French, of Germanic origin.] pouch'y adj. |
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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. 2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as: (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule. (b) (Zo["o]l.) 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. Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
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Language Translation for : pouch
Spanish:
bolsa pequeña, (tabaco) petaca, (caza) morral, zurrón,
German:
der Beutel,
Japanese:
小袋
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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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>
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pouch (pouch)
n.
A pocketlike space in the body.
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