pouch

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A small bag often closing with a drawstring and used especially for carrying loose items in one's pocket.
2. n. A bag or sack used to carry mail or diplomatic dispatches.
3. n. A leather bag or case for carrying powder or small-arms ammunition.
4. n. A sealed plastic or foil container used in packaging frozen or dehydrated food.
5. n. Something resembling a bag in shape: one's pouches under one's eyes.
6. n. Zoology A saclike structure, such as the cheek pockets of the gopher or the external abdominal pocket in which marsupials carry their young.
7. n. Anatomy A pocketlike space in the body: the pharyngeal pouch.
8. n. Scots A pocket.
9. n. Archaic A purse for small coins.
10. v. To place in or as if in a pouch; pocket.
11. v. To cause to resemble a pouch.
12. v. To swallow. Used of certain birds or fishes.
13. v. To assume the form of pouch or pouchlike cavity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A bag or sack of any sort; especially, a poke or pocket, or something answering the same purpose, as the bag carried at the girdle in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and serving as a purse to carry small articles.
2. n. A mail-pouch. See mail-bag.
3. n. In zoology, a dilated or sac-like part, capable of containing something. A sac-like dilatation of the cheeks, commonly called cheek-pouch. See cheek-pouch, and cuts under Geomys and Perognathus.
4. n. In botany, a silicle; also, some other purselike vessel, as the sac at the base of some petals.
5. n. In anatomy, a cæcum, especially when dilated or saccular, or some similar sac or recess. See cut under lamprey.
6. n. A bag for shot or bullets; hence, after the introduction of cartridges, a cartridge-box.
7. n. A small bulkhead or partition in a ship's hold to prevent grain or other loose cargo from shifting.
8. To pocket; put into a pouch or pocket; inclose as in a pouch or sack.
9. To swallow, as a bird or fish.
10. To pocket; submit quietly to.
11. To fill the pockets of; provide with money.
12. To purse up.
13. To form a pouch; bag.

Wiktionary

1. n. A small bag usually closed with a drawstring
2. n. A pocket in which a marsupial carries its young
3. n. Any pocket or bag shaped object; as, a cheek pouch
4. v. transitive To enclose within a pouch.
5. v. transitive To transport within a pouch, especially a diplomatic pouch.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag
2. n. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch.
3. n. A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
4. n. (Zoöl.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young.
5. n. (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
6. n. (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
7. n. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
8. v. To put or take into a pouch.
9. v. To swallow; -- said of fowls.
10. v. obsolete To pout.
11. v. rare To pocket; to put up with.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. put into a small bag
2. v. swell or protrude outwards
3. n. an enclosed space
4. n. (anatomy) saclike structure in any of various animals (as a marsupial or gopher or pelican)
5. v. send by special mail that goes through diplomatic channels
6. n. a small or medium size container for holding or carrying things