From WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003) [wn]:
bag
n 1: a flexible container with a single opening; "he stuffed his
laundry into a large bag"
2: the quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually
by one person); "his bag included two deer"
3: place that runner must touch before scoring; "he scrambled
to get back to the bag" [syn: base]
4: a bag used for carrying money and small personal items or
accessories (especially by women); "she reached into her
bag and found a comb" [syn: handbag, pocketbook,
purse]
5: the quantity that a bag will hold; "he ate a large bag of
popcorn" [syn: bagful]
6: a portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes;
"he carried his small bag onto the plane with him" [syn:
traveling bag, grip, suitcase]
7: an ugly or ill-tempered woman; "he was romancing the old bag
for her money" [syn: old bag]
8: mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats) [syn:
udder]
9: an activity that you like or at which you are superior;
"chemistry is not my cup of tea"; "his bag now is learning
to play golf"; "marriage was scarcely his dish" [syn: {cup
of tea}, dish]
v 1: capture or kill, as in hunting; "bag a few pheasants"
2: hang loosely, like an empty bag
3: bulge out; form a bulge outward, or be so full as to appear
to bulge [syn: bulge]
4: take unlawfully [syn: pocket]
5: put into a bag; "The supermarket clerk bagged the groceries"
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Receptacle \Re*cep"ta*cle\ (r[-e]*s[e^]p"t[.a]*k'l), n. [F.
r['e]ceptacle, L. receptaculum, fr. receptare, v. intens. fr.
recipere to receive. See Receive.]
1. That which serves, or is used, for receiving and
containing something, as for examople, a basket, a
vase, a bag, a reservoir; a repository.
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O sacred receptacle of my joys! --Shak.
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2. (Bot.)
(a) The apex of the flower stalk, from which the organs of
the flower grow, or into which they are inserted. See
Illust. of Flower, and Ovary.
(b) The dilated apex of a pedicel which serves as a common
support to a head of flowers.
(c) An intercellular cavity containing oil or resin or
other matters.
(d) A special branch which bears the fructification in
many cryptogamous plants.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Udder \Ud"der\, n. [OE. uddir, AS. [=u]der; akin to D. uijer, G.
euter, OHG. [=u]tar, [=u]tiro, Icel. j[=u]gr, Sw. jufver,
jur, Dan. yver, L. uber, Gr. o"y^qar, Skr. [=u]dhar.
[root]216. Cf. Exuberant.]
1. (Anat.) The glandular organ in which milk is secreted and
stored; -- popularly called the bag in cows and other
quadrupeds. See Mamma.
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A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. --Shak.
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2. One of the breasts of a woman. [R.]
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Yon Juno of majestic size,
With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. --Pope.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bag \Bag\ (b[a^]g), n. [OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF.
bague, bundle, LL. baga.]
1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of
meal or of money.
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2. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing
some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in
the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow.
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3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair
behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.]
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4. The quantity of game bagged.
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5. (Com.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is
customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of
pepper or hops; a bag of coffee.
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Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one.
To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] --Bunyan.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bag \Bag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bagged (b[a^]gd); p. pr. & vb.
n. Bagging]
1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops.
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2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag
game.
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3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag.
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A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. --Dryden.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Bag \Bag\, v. i.
1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags
from containing morbid matter.
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2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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3. To become pregnant. [Obs.] --Warner. (Alb. Eng.).
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