bagatelle board (bagatel bord)

A portable board on which bagatelle is played. river-sand. It consists of a bag attached by the mouth to an iron hoop which is fastened to a long pole, by means of which it is sunk to the bottom of the river and dragged along so that the bag is filled. - Bag of bones, a very lean person or animal. [Humorous.] IMG:content-1554.png:[blocks in formation] These are court-admirers, And him bears the bag. Fletcher bind that the Elder Brother, i. 2. To bring to bag. See bring. To give one the bag. See to give one the sack, under sack. (at) To leave one without warning. (6) To dismi one from one's service. Bun yan. [Colloq. or dial.] (et) To cheat. Webster.- To leave or give one the bag to hold, to leave one in the lurch. To let the cat out of the bag. See cat1. noun.] bagl (bag), v.; pret. and pp. bagged, ppr. bag ging. [ME. baggen, in trans.; from the noun.] I. in trans. 1. To swell or bulge.-2. To hang loosely like a bag. His frill and neck-cloth hung limp under his bagging waistcoat. 3t. To grow big with child. Then Venus shortly bagged , and Ere long was Cupid bred. Thackeray. Warner, Albion's England, vi. 148. II. trans. 1. To put into a bag: as, to hops.-2. To distend like a bag; swell. How doth an unwelcome dropsy bag up his eyes. bag Bp . Hall , Works, II. 408. IMG:content-1555.png:[blocks in formation] The disputes of Italians are very droll things, and I will accordingly bag the one which is now imminent as a specimen. Lowell , Fireside Travels, p. 245. 4. To make off with; steal. [Colloq.]