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.
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.
Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.
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Pouch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pouched (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Pouching.]
1.
To put or take into a pouch.
2.
To swallow; -- said of fowls.
Derham.
3.
To pout.
[Obs.]
Ainsworth.
4.
To pocket; to put up with.
[R.]
Sir W. Scott.
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