Pouch

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vt To put or take into a pouch.

II. Pouch ·noun A cyst or sac containing fluid.

III. Pouch ·vt To Pout.

IV. Pouch ·noun That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch.

V. Pouch ·vt To Pocket; to put up with.

VI. Pouch ·noun A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

VII. Pouch ·vt To Swallow;

— said of fowls.

VIII. Pouch ·noun A protuberant belly; a paunch;

— so called in ridicule.

IX. Pouch ·noun A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, ·etc., from shifting.

X. Pouch ·noun A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, ·etc.

XI. Pouch ·noun A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.

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