Bag: Definition and part of speech

Bag

  1. n. 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.
  2. n. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money.
  3. n. 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.
  4. n. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men’s hair behind, by way of ornament.
  5. n. The quantity of game bagged.
  6. v. i. To swell with arrogance.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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