1. Noun
A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
2. Noun
That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
3. Noun
A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
4. Noun
A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
5. Noun
A cyst or sac containing fluid.
6. Noun
A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
7. Noun
A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
8. Verb
To put or take into a pouch.
9. Verb
To swallow; -- said of fowls.
10. Verb
To pout.
11. Verb
To pocket; to put up with.
12. Noun
(anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
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