Pouch (?), n. [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) Zool. 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.
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Pouch, v. t. [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.
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