From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pouch \Pouch\, noun [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) (Zo["o]l.) 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.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Pouch \Pouch\, verb (used with an object) [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a small or medium size bag-like container for holding or carrying things
2: an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air" [syn: {sac}, {sack}, {pocket}]
3: (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican) [syn: {pocket}]
verb
2: send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
3: swell or protrude outwards; "His eyes bulged with surprise" [syn: {bulge}, {protrude}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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