v. i. 1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swell with arrogance. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become pregnant. [ Obs. ] Warner. (Alb. Eng.). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bagged p. pr. & vb. n. Bagging ] 1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The quantity of game bagged. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. --
To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [ Obs. ] Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., fr. It. bagatella; cf. Prov. It. bagata trifle, OF. bague, Pr. bagua, bundle. See Bag, n. ] 1. A trifle; a thing of no importance. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Yiddish beygl, prob. fr. dial. G. Beugel. RHUD ] a glazed leavened doughnut-shaped roll with a hard crust. A similar roll in Russia is called a bublik. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The quantity that a bag will hold; as, he ate a bagful of popcorn.
Syn. -- bag. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. bagage, from OF. bague bundle. In senses 6 and 7 cf. F. bagasse a prostitute. See Bag, n. ] 1. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles of clothing and to small personal effects.” Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

We saw our baggage following below. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The English usually call this luggage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Purulent matter. [ Obs. ] Barrough. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Trashy talk. [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A man of bad character. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. [ 1913 Webster ]

A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A romping, saucy girl. [ Playful ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]