Bag /(băg)/

Bag

n.
  1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  2. 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. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]
  4. The quantity of game bagged.
  5. 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. (Com.)

Phrases & Compounds
Bag and baggage
all that belongs to one.
To give one the bag
to disappoint him.

Bag

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Bagged; p. pr. & vb. n. Bagging

  1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
  2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game.
  3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
    A bee bagged with his honeyed venom.

Bag

v. i.
  1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
  2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.]
  3. To become pregnant. [Obs.]