ETYM Old Eng. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also Old Fren. bague, bundle, Late Lat. baga.
1. A flexible (usually cloth, paper, or plastic) container with a single opening.
2. The quantity that a bag will hold; SYN. bagful.
3. A sack used for carrying money and small personal items or accessories (especially by women); SYN. handbag, pocketbook, purse.
4. A portable rectangular traveling bag for carrying clothes; SYN. traveling bag, grip, suitcase.
5. The quantity of game taken in a particular period (usually by one person).
6. An ugly or ill-tempered woman; SYN. old bag.
Flask-shaped cavities found in the swollen tips of certain brown seaweeds (Phaeophyta), notably rockweed and other large members of the genus Fucus. The gametes are formed within them and released into the water via a small pore in the conceptacle, known as an ostiole.
ETYM French cornet, cornette, dim. of corne horn, Latin cornu. Related to Horn.
A brass musical instrument with a brilliant tone; has a narrow tube and a flared bell and is played by means of valves; SYN. horn, trumpet.
Military rank of horn-bearer or standard-bearer.
Three-valved brass band instrument, soprano member in B flat of a group of valved horns developed in Austria and Germany about 1820–50 for military band use. Of cylindrical bore, its compact shape and deeper conical bell allow greater speed and agility of intonation than the trumpet, at the expense of less tonal precision and brilliance.
The cornet is typically played with vibrato, and has its own repertoire of virtuoso pieces, heard in brass band concerts and contests, and consisting of voicelike airs, character pieces, Victorian dance forms, and sets of variations in antique divisions style. The cornet is a featured solo in Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka 1911 and The Soldier’s Tale 1919, though its part is now more usually played (perhaps out of pride) by the trumpet.
State of being incased, state of being enclosed in a case (also encasement)
1. A quick thrust; jab; a blow with the fist; punch
2. A projecting brim on the front of a woman's bonnet
3. A cutting remark; dig
4. Wallet; purse
ETYM French poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. Related to Poke a bag, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder.
(Irregular plural: pouches).
1. A saclike structure in any of various animals; SYN. pocket.
2. An enclosed space; SYN. sac, sack, pocket.
3. Small or medium-sized baglike container for holding or carrying things.
ETYM Old Eng. purs, pors, Old Fren. burse, borse, bourse, French bourse, Late Lat. bursa, from Greek byrsa hide, skin, leather. Related to Bourse, Bursch, Bursar, Buskin.
1. A small bag for carrying money.
2. A sum of money offered as a prize.
3. A sum of money spoken of as the contents of a money purse.
A structure resembling a bag in an animal.
Any membranous bag or cavity.
1. A bag made of paper or plastic for holding customer's purchases; SYN. poke, paper bag, carrier bag.
2. A woman's full loose hip-length jacket; SYN. sacque.
3. The quantity contained in a sack; SYN. sackful.
ETYM Latin, from Greek, a case to put anything in. Related to Tick a cover.
1. A case or sheath especially a pollen sac or moss capsule; SYN. sac.
2. Outer sheath of the pupa of certain insects.
3. Sheath; capsule.
4. Spore-case; capsule; sheath.