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A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.

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  1. n. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  2. n. 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. n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament.
  4. n. The quantity of game bagged.
  5. n. 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.
  6. v. t. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
  7. v. t. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
  8. v. t. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
  9. v. i. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  10. v. i. To swell with arrogance.
  11. v. i. To become pregnant.
  12. n. a flexible container with a single opening