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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Receptacle \Re*cep"ta*cle\ (r[-e]*s[e^]p"t[.a]*k'l), noun [F. r['e]ceptacle, L. receptaculum, fr. receptare, v. intens. fr. recipere to receive. See {Receive}.]
1. That which serves, or is used, for receiving and containing something, as for examople, a {basket}, a {vase}, a {bag}, a {reservoir}; a {repository}.
O sacred receptacle of my joys! --Shak.
2. (Bot.) (a) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See Illust. of {Flower}, and {Ovary}. (b) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common support to a head of flowers. (c) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or other matters. (d) A special branch which bears the fructification in many cryptogamous plants.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Udder \Ud"der\, noun [OE. uddir, AS. [=u]der; akin to D. uijer, G. euter, OHG. [=u]tar, [=u]tiro, Icel. j[=u]gr, Sw. jufver, jur, Dan. yver, L. uber, Gr. o"y^qar, Skr. [=u]dhar. [root]216. Cf. {Exuberant}.]
1. (Anat.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and stored; -- popularly called the {bag} in cows and other quadrupeds. See {Mamma}.
A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. --Shak.
2. One of the breasts of a woman. [R.]
Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bag \Bag\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Bagged} (b[a^]gd); 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. --Dryden.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bag \Bag\ (b[a^]g), noun [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga.]
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. (Com.) 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.
{Bag and baggage}, all that belongs to one.
{To give one the bag}, to disappoint him. [Obs.] --Bunyan.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Bag \Bag\, verb (used without an object)
1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter.
2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
3. To become pregnant. [Obs.] --Warner. (Alb. Eng.). ||
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
bag
noun
1: a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his laundry into a large bag"
2: the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person); "his bag included two deer"
3: place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled to get back to the bag" [syn: {base}]
4: a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her bag and found a comb" [syn: {handbag}, {pocketbook}, {purse}]
5: the quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of popcorn" [syn: {bagful}]
6: a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes; "he carried his small bag onto the plane with him" [syn: {traveling bag}, {grip}, {suitcase}]
7: an ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag for her money" [syn: {old bag}]
8: mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) [syn: {udder}]
9: an activity that you like or at which you are superior; "chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish" [syn: {cup of tea}, {dish}]
verb
1: capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants"
2: hang loosely, like an empty bag
3: bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear to bulge [syn: {bulge}]
4: take unlawfully [syn: {pocket}]
5: put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries" [also: {bagging}, {bagged}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
384 Moby Thesaurus words for "bag": IUD, abstract, acquire, activities, activity, affair, affairs, affinity, and, annex, appropriate, area, baboon, ballocks, balloon, balls, bang, barrel, basket, bat, be seized of, beard, beldam, belly, belly out, bent, bias, biddy, bilge, billfold, billow, bindle, birth control device, bladder, blemish, blot, boobs, boost, booster, booster dose, booster shot, booty, borrow, bosom, bottle, bouge, box, box up, breast, breasts, brisket, budget, bug, bulge, bundle, burden, business, bust, can, capsule, capture, carton, cascade, case, cask, catch, cervix, chest, chosen kind, clench, clitoris, cod, cods, collar, come by, come in for, come into, commerce, concern, concernment, condom, contraceptive, contraceptive foam, contract, cop, corral, crate, crib, crone, crop, cullions, cup of tea, daggle, dangle, deck, defraud, depend, derive, diaphragm, dilate, distend, dog, dose, drab, drabble, draft, drag, drag down, draggle, drape, draw, droop, dropping, drug packet, druthers, dug, earn, embezzle, employ, employment, encase, encyst, enmesh, ensnare, entangle, enter into possession, enterprise, entrap, evening bag, extort, eyesore, fall, family jewels, fancy, favor, female organs, field, filch, fill, fix, flap, flop, flow, fob, forte, foul, freight, fright, function, gain, gargoyle, genitalia, genitals, get, glom, goggle, golf bag, gonads, gunny, gunny sack, hag, hamper, handbag, hang, hang down, harpoon, harridan, harvest, haul, heap, heap up, hit, hook, inclination, injection, interest, intrauterine device, jar, knockers, labia, labia majora, labia minora, labor, lade, land, lasso, leaning, lift, line, lingam, lips, load, long suit, lookout, lop, main interest, mainlining, make, make off with, male organs, mama, mamelon, mamelonation, mammary gland, mammilla, mammillation, manner, mass, matter, meat, mesh, mess, metier, money belt, money clip, monster, monstrosity, nab, nail, narcotic shot, nenes, net, nip, nipple, no beauty, nod, noose, nose bag, nuts, nymphae, obtain, occupation, oral contraceptive, ovary, overdose, pack, pack away, package, palm, pap, papilla, parcel, partiality, particular choice, pend, penis, personal choice, pessary, pet subject, phallus, pigeon breast, pile, pilfer, pinch, poach, pocket, pocketbook, poke, pooch, pop, popping, porte-monnaie, portion, pot, potion, pouch, pout, predilection, predisposition, preference, prehend, prejudice, prepossession, private parts, privates, privy parts, proclivity, procure, prophylactic, pubic hair, pudenda, pull down, purloin, purse, purse strings, pursuit, reap, reproductive organs, reticule, rocks, rope, round out, rubber, run away with, rustle, sac, sack, saddlebag, sag, scarecrow, scoop, score, scrip, scrotum, scrounge, secondary sex characteristic, secure, seizure, service, sex organs, ship, shoplift, shot, sight, skin, skin-popping, sleeping bag, snag, snare, snatch, sniggle, snitch, spear, specialism, speciality, specialization, specialty, spermary, spermicidal jelly, spermicide, stack, steal, store, stow, strong point, style, swag, swell, swell out, swindle, swing, swipe, take, tangle, tangle up with, tank, taste, teat, technicality, tendency, teratism, testes, testicles, the pill, thieve, thing, thorax, tin, tit, tits, titties, titty, tobacco pouch, trail, trap, trot, type, udder, ugly duckling, undertaking, uterus, vagina, vocation, vulva, walk off with, wallet, way, weakness, weep, win, witch, womb, work, yoni
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Bag (1.) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa. 3:22, where it is rendered "crisping-pins," but denotes the reticules (or as R.V., "satchels") carried by Hebrew women. (2.) Another word (kees) so rendered means a bag for carrying weights (Deut. 25:13; Prov. 16:11; Micah 6:11). It also denotes a purse (Prov. 1:14) and a cup (23:31). (3.) Another word rendered "bag" in 1 Sam. 17:40 is rendered "sack" in Gen. 42:25; and in 1 Sam. 9:7; 21:5 "vessel," or wallet for carrying food. (4.) The word rendered in the Authorized Version "bags," in which the priests bound up the money contributed for the restoration of the temple (2 Kings 12:10), is also rendered "bundle" (Gen. 42:35; 1 Sam. 25:29). It denotes bags used by travellers for carrying money during a journey (Prov. 7:20; Hag. 1:6). (5.) The "bag" of Judas was a small box (John 12:6; 13:29).
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