‖n. pl. [ L. (usually in pl.); pref. ambi-, amb- + agere to drive: cf. F. ambage. ] A circuit; a winding. Hence: Circuitous way or proceeding; quibble; circumlocution; indirect mode of speech. [ 1913 Webster ]

After many ambages, perspicuously define what this melancholy is. Burton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambagious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ambagiosus. ] Circumlocutory; circuitous. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Ambagious. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. bagge; cf. Icel. baggi, and also OF. bague, bundle, LL. baga. ] 1. A sack or pouch, used for holding anything; as, a bag of meal or of money. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A sac, or dependent gland, in animal bodies, containing some fluid or other substance; as, the bag of poison in the mouth of some serpents; the bag of a cow. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sort of silken purse formerly tied about men's hair behind, by way of ornament. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The quantity of game bagged. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. (Com.) A certain quantity of a commodity, such as it is customary to carry to market in a sack; as, a bag of pepper or hops; a bag of coffee. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bag and baggage, all that belongs to one. --
To give one the bag, to disappoint him. [ Obs. ] Bunyan. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Bagged p. pr. & vb. n. Bagging ] 1. To put into a bag; as, to bag hops. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To seize, capture, or entrap; as, to bag an army; to bag game. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To furnish or load with a bag or with a well filled bag. [ 1913 Webster ]

A bee bagged with his honeyed venom. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To swell or hang down like a full bag; as, the skin bags from containing morbid matter. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To swell with arrogance. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To become pregnant. [ Obs. ] Warner. (Alb. Eng.). [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] Sugar cane, as it comes crushed from the mill. It is then dried and used as fuel. Also extended to the refuse of beetroot sugar. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Rich trifles, serious bagatelles. Prior. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Yiddish beygl, prob. fr. dial. G. Beugel. RHUD ] a glazed leavened doughnut-shaped roll with a hard crust. A similar roll in Russia is called a bublik. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The quantity that a bag will hold; as, he ate a bagful of popcorn.
Syn. -- bag. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ F. bagage, from OF. bague bundle. In senses 6 and 7 cf. F. bagasse a prostitute. See Bag, n. ] 1. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ “The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles of clothing and to small personal effects.” Farrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler carries with him on a journey; luggage. [ 1913 Webster ]

The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

We saw our baggage following below. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The English usually call this luggage. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Purulent matter. [ Obs. ] Barrough. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Trashy talk. [ Obs. ] Ascham. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. A man of bad character. [ Obs. ] Holland. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute. [ 1913 Webster ]

A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. A romping, saucy girl. [ Playful ] Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. [ U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [ Obs. ] Sir W. Raleigh. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Ar. “fem. of baghl a mule.” Balfour. ] (Naut.) A two-masted Arab or Indian trading vessel, used in the Indian Ocean. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a loose, baggy way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Cloth or other material for bags. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The act of swelling; swelling. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Etymol. uncertain. ] Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke. [ Eng. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. (Geography) The capital city of Iraq. Population (2000) = nk. [ PJC ]

n. a homeless woman who carries all her possessions with her in bags. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n.; pl. Bagmen A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bag-shaped net for catching fish. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ It. bagno, fr. L. balneum. Cf. Bain. ] 1. A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make to look like a bagpipe. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Bag + reef. ] (Naut.) The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F., a ring ] (Arch.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ F. baguette, prop. a rod&unr_; It. bacchetta, fr. L. baculum, baculu&unr_; stick, staff. ] 1. (Arch.) A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platœceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small cloth bag filled with dried beans; it is thrown from person to person in games. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. cabage, fr. F. cabus headed (of cabbages), chou cabus headed cabbage, cabbage head; cf. It. capuccio a little head, cappuccio cowl, hood, cabbage, fr. capo head, L. caput, or fr. It. cappa cape. See Chief, Cape. ] (Bot.) 1. An esculent vegetable of many varieties, derived from the wild Brassica oleracea of Europe. The common cabbage has a compact head of leaves. The cauliflower, Brussels sprouts, etc., are sometimes classed as cabbages. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The terminal bud of certain palm trees, used, like, cabbage, for food. See Cabbage tree, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The cabbage palmetto. See below. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cabbage aphis (Zoöl.), a green plant-louse (Aphis brassicæ) which lives upon the leaves of the cabbage. --
Cabbage beetle (Zoöl.), a small, striped flea-beetle (Phyllotreta vittata) which lives, in the larval state, on the roots, and when adult, on the leaves, of cabbage and other cruciferous plants. --
Cabbage fly (Zoöl.), a small two-winged fly (Anthomyia brassicæ), which feeds, in the larval or maggot state, on the roots of the cabbage, often doing much damage to the crop. --
Cabbage head, the compact head formed by the leaves of a cabbage; -- contemptuously or humorously, and colloquially, a very stupid and silly person; a numskull. --
Cabbage palmetto, a species of palm tree (Sabal Palmetto) found along the coast from North Carolina to Florida. --
Cabbage rose (Bot.), a species of rose (Rosa centifolia) having large and heavy blossoms. --
Cabbage tree,
Cabbage palm, a name given to palms having a terminal bud called a cabbage, as the Sabal Palmetto of the United States, and the Euterpe oleracea and Oreodoxa oleracea of the West Indies. --
Sea cabbage.(Bot.) (a) Sea kale (b). The original Plant (Brassica oleracea), from which the cabbage, cauliflower, broccoli, etc., have been derived by cultivation. --
Thousand-headed cabbage. See Brussels sprouts. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To form a head like that the cabbage; as, to make lettuce cabbage. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Cabbaged p. pr. & vb. n. Cabbaging ] [ F.cabasser, fr. OF. cabas theft; cf. F. cabas basket, and OF. cabuser to cheat. ] To purloin or embezzle, as the pieces of cloth remaining after cutting out a garment; to pilfer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Your tailor . . . cabbages whole yards of cloth. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Cloth or clippings cabbaged or purloined by one who cuts out garments. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Zoöl.), a white butterfly (Pieris rapæ of both Europe and America, and the allied Pieris oleracea, a native American species) which, in the larval state, devours the leaves of the cabbage and the turnip. See also Cabbage worm, below. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zoöl.), the larva of several species of moths and butterflies, which attacks cabbages. The most common is the toxic green larva of a white butterfly, the cabbage butterfly, (Pieris rapæ). The cabbage cutworms, which eat off the stalks of young plants during the night, are the larvæ of several species of moths, of the genus Agrotis. See Cutworm. larva of a cabbage butterfly. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A portable bag for travelers; -- so called because originally made of carpet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An adventurer; -- a term of contempt for a Northern man seeking private gain or political advancement in the southern part of the United States after the Civil War (1865). [ U. S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Pref. circum- + ambage, obs. sing. of ambages. ] A roundabout or indirect course; indirectness. [ Obs. ] S. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Crib, v. t., 2. ] A game of cards, played by two or four persons, in which there is a crib. (See Crib, 11.) It is characterized by a great variety of chances. [ 1913 Webster ]

A man's fancy would be summed up in cribbage. John Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cribbage board, a board with holes and pegs, used by cribbage players to score their game. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A sailor's small bag to hold thread, needles, tape, etc.; -- also called sailor's housewife. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A sack to hold miscellaneous articles, as tools, supplies, or the like. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Mil.) A bag filled with earth, used commonly to raise or repair a parapet. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a small dressy handbag, richly decorated, carried by women for formal occasions in the evening. [ PJC ]

n. [ Of uncertain origin; cf. Fardel. ] The upper stomach of a cow, or other ruminant animal; the rumen. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a canvas bag that is used to feed an animal (such as a horse or mule); animal feed such as oats are placed in the bag, and it is fastened at the top of the head, covering the muzzle. The animal may then eat the contents while thus wearing the feedbag.
Syn. -- nosebag. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. a canvas or leather bag for carrying game (especially birds) killed by a hunter. [ WordNet 1.5 ]