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6 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. A lioness, with udders all drawn dry. --Shak. 2. One of the breasts of a woman. [R.] Yon Juno of majestic size, With cowlike udders, and with oxlike eyes. --Pope. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bag \Bag\, v. i. 1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as the skin bags from containing morbid matter. 2. To swell with arrogance. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 3. To become pregnant. [Obs.] --Warner. (Alb. Eng. ). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bag \Bag\, 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. 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. 3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [Obs.] 4. The quantity of game bagged. 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. {Bag and baggage}, all that belongs to one {To give one the bag}, to disappoint him [Obs.] --Bunyan. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bag \Bag\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Bagged}(?); p. pr & vb n. {Bagging}] 1. To put into a bag; as to bag hops. 2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as to bag an army; to bag game. 3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. --Dryden. From WordNet r 1.6 [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 [syn: {bulge}] 4: take unlawfully [syn: {pocket}] 5: put in one's pocket; "He pocketed the change" [syn: {pocket}] 6: put into a bag From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Bag (1.) A pocket of a cone-like shape in which Naaman bound two pieces of silver for Gehazi (2 Kings 5:23). The same Hebrew word occurs elsewhere only in Isa. 3:22, where it is rendered "crisping-pins," but denotes the reticules (or as R.V., "satchels") carried by Hebrew women. (2.) Another word (kees) so rendered means a bag for carrying weights (Deut. 25:13; Prov. 16:11; Micah 6:11). It also denotes a purse (Prov. 1:14) and a cup (23:31). (3.) Another word rendered bag" in 1 Sam. 17:40 is rendered sack" in Gen. 42:25; and in 1 Sam. 9:7; 21:5 "vessel," or wallet for carrying food. (4.) The word rendered in the Authorized Version "bags," in which the priests bound up the money contributed for the restoration of the temple (2 Kings 12:10), is also rendered bundle" (Gen. 42:35; 1 Sam. 25:29). It denotes bags used by travellers for carrying money during a journey (Prov. 7:20; Hag. 1:6). (5.) The bag" of Judas was a small box (John 12:6; 13:29).
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