 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
pouch
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
1: put into a small bag
2: send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
3: swell or protrude outwards; "His eyes bulged with surprise"
[syn: {bulge}, {protrude}]
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 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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