Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages). Noah Webster

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СКАЧАТЬ to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. Ð To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [Obs.] Bunyan.

      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.

       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.).

       ØBaÏgasse¶ (?), n. [F.] Sugar cane, as it ?omes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar.

       ØBag·aÏtelle¶ (?), n. [F., fr. It. bagatella; cf. Prov. It. bagata trifle, OF. bague, Pr. bagua, bundle. See Bag, n.] 1. A trifle; a thing of no importance.

       Rich trifles, serious bagatelles.

       Prior.

       2. A game played on an oblong board, having, at one end, cups or arches into or through which balls are to be driven by a rod held in the hand of the player.

       Bag¶gage (?), n. [F. bagage, from OF. bague bungle. In senses 6 and 7 cf. F. bagasse a prostitute. See Bag, n.] 1. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.

       µ ½The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles of clothing and to small personal effects.¸

       Farrow.

       2. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage.

       The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach.

       Thackeray.

       We saw our baggage following below.

       Johnson.

       µ The English usually call this luggage.

       3. Purulent matter. [Obs.]

       Barrough.

       4. Trashy talk. [Obs.]

       Ascham.

       5. A man of bad character. [Obs.]

       Holland.

       6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.

       A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage.

       Thackeray.

       7. A romping, saucy girl. [Playful]

       Goldsmith.

       Bag¶gage mas·ter (?). One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [U.S.]

       Bag¶gaÏger (?), n. One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.]

       Sir W.Raleigh.

       ØBag¶gaÏla (?), n. [Ar. ½fem. of baghl a mule.¸ Balfour.] (Naut.) A twoÐmasted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in Indian Ocean.

       Bag¶giÏly (?), adv. In a loose, baggy way.

       Bag¶ging, n. 1. Cloth or other material for bags.

       2. The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.

       3. The act of swelling; swelling.

       Bag¶ging, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [Eng.]

       Bag¶gy (?), a. Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.

       Bag¶man (?), n.; pl. Bagmen (?). A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.

       Thackeray.

       Bag¶ net· (?). A bagÐshaped net for catching fish.

       Bagn¶io (?), n. [It. bagno, fr. L. balneum. Cf. Bain.] 1. A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; Ð also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]

       2. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.

       Bag¶pipe (?), n. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.

       µ It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely, the bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together what is called the drone; the third, or chanter, gives the melody.

       Bag¶pipe, v.t. To make to look like a bagpipe.

       To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging.

       Totten.

       Bag¶pip·er (?), n. One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.

       Shak.

       Bag¶reef· (?), n. [Bag + reef.] (Naut.) The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.

       Ham. Nav. Encyc.

       ØBague (?), n. [F., a ring] (Arch.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

       BaÏguet¶, BaÏguette¶ } (?), n. [F. baguette, prop. a rod? It. bacchetta, fr. L. baculum, baculu? stick, staff.] 1. (Arch.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.

       2. (Zo”l) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.

       Bag¶wig¶ (?), n. A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.

       Bag¶worm· (?), n. (Zo”l.) One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Plat?ceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.

       Bahÿ(?), interj. An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.

       TwentyÐfive years ago the vile ejaculation, Bah! was utterly unknown to the English public.

       De Quincey.

       ØBaÏhar¶ (?), n. [Ar. bah¾r, from bahara to charge with a load.] A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.

       Baigne (?), v.i. [F. baigner to bathe, fr. L. balneum bath.] To soak or drench. [Obs.]

       Bail (?), n. [F. baille a bucket, pail; cf. LL. bacula, dim. of bacca a sort of vessel. Cf. Bac.] A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat. [Obs.]

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