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[ mod. E. belly and bellows: see belly, where other forms are given, and bellows. Cf. OF. bague = Pr. bagua =It. dial. bag a, a bundle, baggage, ML. bag a, a bag, chest, baggage, belongings, appar. from the Teut. or the similar Celtic forms.] 1. A small sack; a portable receptacle or repository of leather, cloth, paper, or other flexible material, capable of being closed at the mouth; a wallet; a pouch: as, a flour- bag; a carpet- bag or traveling- bag; a mail- bag. Specifically-2. A purse or money-bag. He was a thief, and had the bag . John xii. 6. 3t. A small silken pouch in which the back hair of the wig was curled away. A bob wig and a black silken bag tied to it. Add is on . 4. What is contained in a bag; in hunting , the animals bagged or obtained in an expedition or a day's sport. The bag is not the sole aim of a day afield. Forest and Stream, XXI. 2. 5. A sac or receptacle in animal bodies containing some fluid or other substance: as, the honey - bag of a bee.-6. An udder. The cow is sacrificed to her bag, the ox to his sirloin. Emerson, Eng. Traits, p. 99. bag 7. pl. The stomach. [Scotch and north. Eng.] -8. pl. Trousers. [Vulgar.] -9. The middle part of a large haul-seine: the two parts on the sides are called wings.-10. A flue in a porcelain-oven which ascends on the inner side, and enters the oven high up, so as to heat the upper part.-11. A customary measure of capacity, generally from 2 to 4 bushels.-12. In coal mining, a quantity of fire-damp suddenly given off from the coal; also, the cavity from which the gas is emitted: formerly used to include cavities containing a large amount of water. -Bag and baggage, all one's belongings or property: originally a military phrase. Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat; though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. Shak., As you Like it, iii. 2. IMG:content-1553.png:[blocks in formation] The [cremation] furnace can not be in this coun try for le than from three to five you sand dollars mere bagatelle compared with the cost of some of our cemeteries. Pop. Sci. Mo., XXII. 862. 2. A game played on a table having at one end nine holes, into which balls are to be struck with a billiard-cue.