Bag

bag, n. a sack, pouch: specially the silken pouch to contain the back-hair of the wig: a measure of quantity for produce: a game-bag, i.e. the quantity of fish or game secured: an udder: ( vulg. in pl. ) trousers.— v.i. to bulge, swell out: ( naut. ) to drop away from the right course.— v.t. to cram full: to put into a bag, specially of game, hence to kill game, to seize, steal:— pr.p. bag′ging; pa.p. bagged.— ns. Bag′ging , cloth or material for bags; Bag′git , a salmon that has just spawned.— adj. Bag′gy , loose like a bag: inflated, verbose.— ns. Bag′man , a familiar name for a commercial traveller; Bag′-wig , an 18th-cent. wig, the back-hair of which was enclosed in an ornamental bag.— Bag and baggage , originally a military expre ion, hence the phrase, 'to march out with bag and baggage,' i.e. with all belongings saved: to make an honourable retreat: now used in the sense of 'to clear out completely.'— Bag of bones , an emaciated living being.— In the bottom of the bag , remaining as a last resource; The whole bag of tricks , every expedient; To give one the bag to hold , to engage any one and meanwhile disappear; To let the cat out of the bag , to disclose the secret. [M. E. bagge , perh. Scand.; not Celtic, as Diez suggests.]