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• Bag

  ·vi To become pregnant. II. Bag ·vi To swell with arrogance. III. Bag ·noun The quantity of game b...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Bag

  1) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• bag

  A commercial term of quantity; as, a bread or biscuit bag, a sand-bag, &c. An empty purse. ♦ To ba...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Bag

  is the rendering of several words in the Old and New Testaments. • Charitim, the "bags" in which Na...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Bag net

  ·- A bag-shaped net for catching fish. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Ditty-bag

  ·noun A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, ·etc.; — also called sailor's housewife. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Duffel bag

  ·add. ·- A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• Farding-bag

  ·noun The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen. ...

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• Honey-bag

  ·noun The receptacle for honey in a honeybee. ...

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• Telescope bag

  ·add. ·- An adjustable traveling bag consisting of two cases, the larger slipping over the other. ...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• green bag

  An attorney: those gentlemen carry their clients' deeds in a green bag; and, it is said, when they h...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• louse bag

  A black bag worn to the hair or wig. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• nose bag

  A bag fastened to the horse's head, in which the soldiers of the cavalry put the oats given to their...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• shag-bag

  A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• shake-bag

  A poor sneaking fellow; a man of no spirit: a term borrowed from the cock-pit. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• chewgah-bag

  n. Queensland aboriginalpigeon-English for Sugar-bag (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• dilly-bag

  See dilli ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• sugar-bag

  n. nest of honey, and the honey. 1881. A. C. Grant, `Bush Life in Queensland,' vol. i. p. 67: «Th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• badger-bag

  The fictitious Neptune who visits the ship on her crossing the line. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bag, the

  Allowed for the men to keep their clothes in. The ditty bag included needles and needfuls, love-toke...

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• bag-reef

  A fourth or lower reef of fore-and-aft sails, often used in the royal navy. ♦ Bag-reef of top-sail...

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• ditty-bag

  Derives its name from the dittis or Manchester stuff of which it was once made. It is in use among s...

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• fernan bag

  A small ditty-bag, often worn by sailors, for holding tobacco and other things. They have applied th...

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• lull-bag

  A wide canvas hose in whalers for conducting blubber into the casks, as it is "made off." ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bag of nails

  He squints like a bag of nails; i. e. his eyes are directed as many ways as the points of a bag of n...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• bag and baggage

  The whole movable property. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• bag, of the head-rails

  The lowest part of the head-rails, or that part which forms the sweep of the rail. ...

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