banggage (1) (age = ig)

& a. [In Sw., Dan., Dut., Ger., Fr., & Sp. bagage; Prov. bagatge; Port. bagagem, bagajem; Ital. bag aglia, bagaglie (pl.), bagaglio (sing.). Probably from Sp. bag a = a cord which ties the packs upon horses. Or po ibly, as Mahn thinks, from O. Fr. bague; Prov. bagua = a bundle.] A. As substantive: 1. The tents, furniture, utensils, and whatever else is indispensable to the comfort of an army. "... yet the baggage was left behind for want of beasts to draw it. "-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xv. 2. The trunks, portmanteaus, and carpetbags which a traveller carries with him on his journey; luggage. the boiling waves of a torrent which suddenly whirls away his baggage and forces him to run for hir life..."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xiii. 3. Rubbish, refuse, trumpery. B. As adjective: 1. Used for carrying luggage. "The baggage horses."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng., ch. xiii. 2. Worthle , rubbishy. Bag and Baggage (generally used as an adverb): With a person's all; root and branch. It seems to have been used originally of the defenders of a fort who have surrendered on terms, being allowed to carry out with them their knapsacks and other luggage. From this it pa ed to other more or le analogous cases. "And the men were letten pa , bag and and baggage, and the castle casten down to the ground."- Pit scottie : James 11., p. 34. "Do labella designed, when his affairs grew desperate in Egypt, to pack up bag and baggage, and sail for Italy."-Arbuthnot. The phrase bag and baggage , which had long existed both in English and Scotch, acquired new vitality in 1876, when Mr. Gladstone recommended, as a panacea for the woes of Bulgaria, that the official part of the Turkish population should be requested to remove from that province "bag and baggage." His view on the subject was described by some newspaper writers as the "bag and baggage" policy. băg'-gage (2) (age = ig), s . [Fr. baga e = baggage, worthle woman, harlot; Prov. bagua a; Sp. bagasa; Ital. bagascia ; from 410 O. Fr. bague, Prov. bagua = a bundle. Dr. Murray considers that it is a particular use of baggage (1).] 1. With imputation on the moral character: A woman of loose character, specially one following an army. "Hang thee, young baggage, disobedient wretch." Shakesp. Romeo and Juliet, iii. 5. "When this baggage meets with a man who has vanity to credit relations, she turns him to account." -Spectator. 2. Without imputation on the moral character ( familiarly ): A young girl not worth much. (Formerly used sometimes in mock censure as a term of affection.) "Olivia and Sophia, too, promised to write, but seem to have forgotten me. Tell them they are two arrant little baggages Goldsmith: Vicar of Wake field.