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Pouch(medicine)
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beardie (medicine) and pouch(1) (iou)


beardie (medicine)


beardie
<zoology> The bearded loach (Nemachilus barbatus) of Europe.

Origin: From Beard.

Source: Websters Dictionary


pouch(1) (iou)



pouch noun. ME.
[Old Northern French pouche var. of Old & mod. French poche bag, pouch, (now) pocket: cf. POKE noun1.]
A (usu. small) bag, sack, or Other receptacle, used for various purposes. Later also, a (detachable) outside pocket worn on the front of a garment; (chiefly Scot.) a pocket in a garment. ME.
J. Fowles Those little pouches Victorian gentlemen..put their watches in.
spec.
a. A small bag for carrying money; arch. a purse. LME.
P. S. Buck He took from his girdle a small greasy pouch..and counted the money in it.
b. Military. A leather bag or case for carrying ammunition. E17.
c. A lockable bag for carrying mail; esp. a diplomatic bag. L19.
a. Anatomy, Medicine, & Zoology. An enclosed cavity or hollow structure resembling a bag or pocket; spec. (a) the stomach of a fish; (b) a distensible sac for Food storage, as beneath the bill of some birds (e.g. pelicans), in the cheeks of some mammals (esp. rodents and certain monkeys), etc.; (c) a cavity enclosed by a fold of tissue in which certain animals, esp. marsupial mammals, carry their young; a marsupium; (d) Botany a short or rounded seed-vessel of a cruciferous plant; a silicle. LME.
cheek-pouch: see CHEEK noun. Douglas's pouch: see DOUGLAS noun2. gill pouch: see GILL noun1.
b. A baggy fold of loose skin, esp. under the eye. Usu. in pl. E20.
J. Heller The pouches under the sad man's eyes were tinged with blue.
Nautical. Any of several divisions made by bulkheads in a ship's hold, for stowing cargo which might shift. obsolete exc. Hist. E17.
Comb.: pouch-mouth, pouch-mouthed adjectives (long rare) having thick or protruding lips.
pouchless adjective (rare) E19.
pouchlike adjective resembling a pouch M19.
pouchy adjective having pouches; resembling a pouch; baggy: E19.