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Definition of Pouch

1. Verb. Put into a small bag.

2. Noun. A small or medium size container for holding or carrying things.

3. Verb. Send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels.

4. Noun. An enclosed space. "The trapped miners found a pocket of air"

5. Verb. Swell or protrude outwards. "His stomach bulged after the huge meal"

6. Noun. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican).

Definition of Pouch

1. n. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

2. v. t. To put or take into a pouch.

Definition of Pouch

1. Noun. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring ¹

2. Noun. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young ¹

3. Noun. Any pocket or bag shaped object; as, a cheek pouch ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To enclose within a pouch. ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pouch

1. to put in a pouch (a small, flexible receptacle) [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouch

potty potty-mouthed potty-trained potty-training potty chair potty humor potty mouth potty mouths potty seat pottymouth

pottymouthed potulent potzer potzers poubaite pouch (current term) pouch-shaped pouched pouched egg pouched eggs

pouched mammal pouched mole pouched mouse pouched rat pouches pouchful pouchfuls pouchier pouchiest pouching

Literary usage of Pouch

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1905)
"The pouch is situated in the autero-lateral wall of the (esophagus on the left side, the upper end of the pouch being placed ..."

2. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1893)
"The pouch was typical in its situation, and in the symptoms which it occasioned. ... The pouch was easily found, and as it was cut away the opening into the ..."

3. A History of the Earth and Animated Nature by Oliver Goldsmith (1856)
"Md'Aboville then determined to seize and examine her: the pouch, the aperture of which had ... On the fifteenth day, a finger was introduced into the pouch, ..."

4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"The blacks inform me that the Echidna lays a white egg, and the Platypus a black one, which are hatched in the abdominal pouch. ..."

5. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1893)
"(l) over-distension of the pouch with atmospheric air admitted through the Eustachian tube, and (2) over-distension with gas evolved in the pouch under the ..."

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