Category:Pouch

Pouch, n. Etym: [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) (zoöl.) 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.

Pouch Pouch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouching.]

1. To put or take into a pouch.

2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. Derham.

3. To pout. [obs.] Ainsworth.

4. To pocket; to put up with. [r.] Sir w. Scott.