pouch
n.
pocket, sac; handbag, purse; baggy skin under the eye
v.
put in a pouch, place in a pocket
Pouch
pouch
Noun
1. a small or medium size bag-like container for holding or carrying things
(hypernym) bag
(hyponym) mailbag, mail pouch
2. an enclosed space; "the trapped miners found a pocket of air"
(synonym) sac, sack, pocket
(hypernym) cavity, enclosed space
3. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
(synonym) pocket
(hypernym) sac
(hyponym) gizzard, ventriculus, gastric mill
(classification) anatomy, general anatomy
Verb
1. put into a small bag
(hypernym) bag
2. send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
(hypernym) mail, get off
3. swell or protrude outwards; "His eyes bulged with surprise"
(synonym) bulge, protrude
(hypernym) change shape, change form, deform
(hyponym) bulk
Pouch
(v. t.)
To swallow; -- said of fowls.
(v. t.)
To put or take into a pouch.
(v. t.)
To pout.
(v. t.)
To pocket; to put up with.
(n.)
That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
(n.)
A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
(n.)
A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
(n.)
A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
(n.)
A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
(n.)
A cyst or sac containing fluid.
(n.)
A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
About
pouch
Synonyms and related words:
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus, which is part of the
Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.