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(), 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) (Zol.) 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 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. スポンサード リンク
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