pouch

pouch
    n 1: a small or medium size container for holding or carrying
         things
    2: an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
       [syn: {pouch}, {sac}, {sack}, {pocket}]
    3: (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a
       marsupial or gopher or pelican) [syn: {pouch}, {pocket}]
    v 1: put into a small bag
    2: send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
    3: swell or protrude outwards; "His stomach bulged after the
       huge meal" [syn: {bulge}, {pouch}, {protrude}]
    

Pouch \Pouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pouched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Pouching}.]
   1. To put or take into a pouch.
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   2. To swallow; -- said of fowls. --Derham.
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   3. To pout. [Obs.] --Ainsworth.
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   4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.] --Sir W. Scott.
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Pouch \Pouch\, 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.
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   2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as:
      (a) A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in
          ridicule.
      (b) (Zool.) 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.
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   {Pouch mouth}, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
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30 Moby Thesaurus words for "pouch":
      bag, balloon, beetle, belly, belly out, bilge, billow, bouge, bug,
      bulge, dilate, distend, goggle, jut, overhang, pocket, poke, pooch,
      pop, pout, project, protrude, purse, reticule, round out, sack,
      stand out, stick out, swell, swell out