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▪ I. pouch, n.|paʊtʃ|
Also 4–6 pouche, powche, 5 poche, 5–8 powch, 6–7 (8 Sc.) poutch, 7 pooch, 8– Sc. pootch.
[ME. pouche, a. ONF. pouche (13th c. in Littré: cf. mod. Norm. dial. pouchet, in Perche pouchon (Godef.)), parallel form of OF. poche bag, pouch: see poke n.1]
1. a. A bag, sack, or receptacle of small or moderate size, used for various purposes, esp. for carrying small articles; a pocket as a distinct receptacle worn outside the dress.
c1386Chaucer Reeve's T. 11 A ioly poppere baar he in his pouche. c1420Pallad. on Husb. iv. 408 The graynes ripe,..Putte in a poche [L. fiscella] of palme, and with the wrynge Let presse hem. c1440Promp. Parv. 411/1 Powche, marsupium. c1496Serm. Episc. Puer. (W. de W.) b iij, Ther is no vanyte in no partye of the worlde but we ben redy to bye it... Euyll fasshened garmentes & deuyllysshe shoon and slyppers of frensmen, powches and paynted gyrdels of spaynardes. 1573–80Baret Alv. P 606 A Pouch: a great bag, or satchell. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 224 By his Side a Pouch he wore Replete with strange Hermetick Powder. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. II. 234 Seven pictures of God the Father in form of a little old man in a blue and red coat with a pouch by his side. 1861Eng. Wom. Dom. Mag. III. 119/1 The little Pouches..still continue to be worn, suspended from the waistband by a chain and hook, and sometimes by a cord.
b. spec. A small bag in which money is carried; a purse. Now chiefly arch. or literary.
c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 259 Of whiche [gold] to litel al in my pouche is. 1483Cath. Angl. 289/1 A Powche, vbi A purse. 1515Barclay Egloges iii. (1570) C iij/2 These..dare I not playnly touche, For all these crosses and siluer in my pouche. 1598Shakes. Merry W. i. iii. 96 Tester ile haue in pouch when thou shalt lacke. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1134 Could Catechise a Money-Box, And prove all Powches Orthodox. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 240 Nothing so melancholy as the meditations of a poor devil without penny in pouch. 1832H. Martineau Ella of Gar. i. 14 Out comes the pouch, as sure as I show myself to gather the rent. 1871R. Ellis Catullus xiii. 8 Know he boasts but a pouch of empty cobwebs.
c. A pocket in a garment. Chiefly Sc.
c1610Sir J. Melvil Mem. (1735) 9 He had always a New Testament in English in his Pouch. 1686tr. Chardin's Trav. Persia 87 For fear of spoiling their Caps..in the Rain, they will put 'em in their Pouches, and go Bare-Headed. 1820Combe Consol. ii. (Chandos ed.) 153 From his pouch his sketch-book drew. 1889Barrie Window in Thrums xix. 180 She saw 'im twa or three times put his hand in his pouch. 1901Scotsman 12 Mar. 5/4 Standing about..‘wi' naething in his pouches but his hauns’.
d. A leathern bag or case used by soldiers for carrying ammunition. Hence transf. a wooden cartridge-box.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. xii. 57 You must be carefull to cleare the decks with..fire-pots, poutches of powder. 1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. i. ii. 19 Their Bandaliers fill'd with Powder, and Shot in their Pooches. 1719De Foe Crusoe i. 23 He brought a great Leather Pouch which held about a Pound and half of Powder,..and another with Shot. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Desp. VI. 217 A letter..complaining of certain pouches lately sent out from England for the use of the Portuguese troops. 1853Stocqueler Mil. Encycl., Pouch, a case of strong leather, lined with tin divisions, for the purpose of carrying a soldier's ammunition.
e. A mail-bag (also mail-pouch: see mail n.3 4 b), esp. a smaller bag enclosed in another; also, a letter-carrier's bag.
1879Post Master General's Rep. in Parl. Papers 1878–9 (C. 2405) XXI. 197 The..number of pouches exchanged with these Travelling Post Offices..in 24 hours is now 1090. 1889Century Mag. XXXVIII. 606/2 At 3 o'clock a.m. the European mails closed, and the pouches put on board the Aller carried the usual copies for the foreign circulation.
f. = diplomatic bag s.v. diplomatic a. and n. A. 3.
1958L. Durrell Mountolive vi. 140 When the Syrians want to be clever, they don't use a diplomatic courier; they confide their pouch to a lady, the vice-consul's niece. 1967M. Childs Taint of Innocence iv. 240 He put the locked briefcase on Wyant's desk. ‘Watrous said he thought you wouldn't mind sending it back to him by pouch.’ 1968D. Torr Treason Line 163 I've been down here for the past hour checking the airgrams for the Washington pouch. 1974Lebende Sprachen XIX. 39/2 US pouch—BE/US diplomatic bag. Kuriersack, -tasche.
2. Naut. One of a number of divisions made by small bulkheads or partitions in a ship's hold, for stowing corn or other loose cargo.
1627Capt. Smith Seaman's Gram. vii. 33 The Ballast will sometimes shoot, that is run from one side to another, and so will Corne and Salt, if you make not Pouches or Bulk-heads. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I, Powches, so the Seamen call small Bulkheads made in the Hold of a Ship, to stow Corn, Goods, or the like, that it do not shoot from one side to the other.
3. Applied to a natural receptacle resembling a bag or pocket.
a. Anat., Zool., Path. A cavity in an animal body, like a bag (usually small, and either permanent or temporary); a sac, cyst. spec. † (a) the stomach of a fish: = poke n.1 6 (obs.); (b) the distensible gular sac beneath the bill in certain birds, as the pelican and cormorant; (c) a dilatation of the cheeks in certain mammals, a cheek-pouch; (d) the receptacle in which marsupial mammals carry their undeveloped young; the marsupium.
c1450Two Cookery-bks. 101 Pike boyled... Slyt the pouuche, And kepe the fey or the lyuer, and kutte awey the gall. 1622R. Hawkins Voy. S. Sea (1847) 68 [The shark] is the most ravenous fish knowne in the sea... In the puch of them hath beene found hatts, cappes, shooes, shirts, leggs and armes of men. 1739S. Sharp Surg. xxxvi. 205 The Spot of the Vessel..where the Disease begins, generally recedes in such a manner from the Surface of the Artery by the force of the Blood..pushing it outwards, as to form a large Pouch or Cyst. 1774Goldsm. Nat. Hist. (1776) V. 197 This is a pouch, the entrance of which lies immediately under the tongue, and capable of holding near seven quarts of water. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 302 These pouches are often large enough to admit the end of the finger, and contain occasionally small calculi. 1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) I. 67 note, The face of this Ape is shaped somewhat like that of a Dog. The cheeks are furnished with pouches. 1834McMurtrie Cuvier's Anim. Kingd. 299 Isopoda. The females carry their ova under the second and third segments of the body, in a pouch formed of approximated scales. 1856Huxley in Q. Jrnl. Microscop. Sc. IV. 192 The ovum passes..into the ovicell—there as in a marsupial pouch, to undergo its further development. 1888Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 435 The respiratory system consists of gill-pouches or sacs, seven on each side in the Lampreys.
b. Bot. A bag-like cavity, sac, or cyst, in a plant; spec. a seed-vessel resembling a bag or purse, a short or rounded pod, a silicle.
1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 191 b, It creepeth low by the ground,..with a seede inclosed in little powches, like a shepheardes purse. 1776Withering Brit. Plants (1796) III. 48 Isatis. Pouch deciduous. 1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. I. 9 The silicle or pouch is a shorter, broader pod [than the silique]. 1862Darwin Fertil. Orchids ii. 69 As soon as the disc is drawn out of the pouch the movement of depression commences.
c. = bag n. 12 c.
1928J. Buchan Runagates Club iv. 134 There were dark pouches under his eyes. a1953E. O'Neill Hughie (1959) 8 His blue eyes have drooping lids and puffy pouches under them. 1980P. Harcourt Tomorrow's Treason i. ii. 37 Pouches under his eyes as if he hadn't slept.
†4. Name of some game. Obs.
1600Nashe Summers Last Will 2048 Thou and I will play at poutch, to morrow morning for a breakfast.
5. [f. pouch v. 4.] A present of money, a ‘tip’. slang or colloq.
1880Disraeli Endym. III. iii. 25 Your grandfather..pouched me at Harrow, and it was the largest pouch I ever had.
6. attrib. and Comb., as pouch-belt, pouch-lid; formed into or having a pouch-like or baggy shape, as pouch shirt, pouch waist, etc.; pouch-like, pouch-shaped adjs.; pouch-bone, a marsupial bone (in marsupials and monotremes); pouch-gill, (a) the pouch-like gill of the Marsipobranchii or Cyclostomi; (b) a fish having pouch-like gills, as a lamprey; pouch-gilled a., having pouch-like gills, marsipobranchiate; pouch-hook (U.S.), a hook on which a mail-bag is hung; pouch-mouse, a rodent having cheek-pouches, a pocket-mouse; pouch-toad, a toad of the genus Nototrema, in which the eggs are hatched in a pouch or hole in the back of the mother. See also pouch-maker, etc.
1812Sporting Mag. XXXIX. 167 Cavalry uniform, a *pouch belt, and a sabre-tache.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. L iij, As ye wolde fasten a nedle with threde on your bosome or *pouche lid.
1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 572/2 Two prolongations..of a *pouch-like form. 1895S. S. Buckman in Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 374 The pouchlike cheeks of a baby.
1861J. R. Greene Man. Anim. Kingd. ii. Cœlent. 117 *Pouch-shaped processes.
1898St. James' Gaz. 12 Jan. 12/1 The *pouch shirt is the last new make.
1897Daily News 6 July 8/4 The modified edition of the *pouch waist as adopted by most of the Englishwomen who venture on that style.
▪ II. pouch, v.|paʊtʃ|
[f. pouch n.; cf. poach v.1]
1. trans.
a. To put into or enclose in a pouch; usually, to put into one's pocket, to pocket; also fig. or in extended sense, to take possession of, to ‘bag’.
a1566R. Edwards Damon & Pithias (1571) C iv, Ch a [= I've] poucht them vp all ready, they are sure in hold. 1686F. Spence tr. Varillas' Ho. Medicis 12 He had already pouched the half ring. a1774Fergusson Election Poems (1845) 42 They pouch the gowd, nor fash the town For weights and scales to weigh them. 1832H. Martineau Ella of Gar. iii. 38 He twisted their necks..and pouched them in his plaid. 1840F. Trollope Widow Married ii, A pretty sum you must have pouched last night. 1890Sci. Amer. 25 Jan. 55/3 They [letters] have next to be ‘pouched’... The packages of letters are thrown dexterously into the proper compartments.
b. fig. To ‘pocket’, put up with.
1819Scott Ivanhoe xxxiii, I will pouch up no such affront before my parishioners.
c. Cricket. To catch (the ball); also with the batsman as object.
1910A. A. Milne Day's Play 114, I heard Slip call ‘Mine’ and he pouched the ball. 1963Times 13 June 13/3 A series of pulls which ended with a catch at the wicket would appear in this form: ‘After several cow-shots into the Great Beyond, Basher was neatly pouched by the timber-watcher.’ 1970Times 12 Jan. 7/7 Neither catch that Fletcher dropped was at all easy, but..Bobby Simpson or Philip Sharpe might well have pouched them both.
2. To take into the stomach, to swallow: said of fishes (cf. prec. 3 a (a)), and of certain birds; also, to take into a pouch in the mouth or gullet.
1653Walton Angler vii. 154 The Pike..will have line enough to go to his hold and powch the bait. 1774White in Phil. Trans. LXV. 267 Swifts when..shot..discover a little lump of insects in their mouths, which they pouch and hold under their tongue. 1787Best Angling (ed. 2) 13 First allowing the fish, by a little slackening the line a small time to pouch the bait. 1873G. C. Davies Mount. & Mere xxiii. 201 He refused to pouch it.
†3. To swell out or protrude (the lips) into a pouch-like form; to purse the lips; to pout. rare.
1647R. Stapylton Juvenal xiv. 266 If this make thee frown, And pouch thy lips out. [Cf. 1680 in pouching vbl. n. below.] 1754Richardson Grandison (1810) V. x. 53 He pouched his mouth, and reared himself up and swelled; but answered me not.
4. [f. prec. 1 b or c.] To supply the purse or pocket of; to give a present of money to; to ‘tip’. (With the person or the money as obj., or with double obj.) slang or colloq.
1810in Dowden Shelley (1886) I. ii. 53 [To him [Ed. Graham] Shelley wrote..April 1 [1810], requesting him].. to pouch those venal villains, the reviewers. 1842W. Cory Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 5, I shall not have to pouch Hawtrey or my Tutor. 1845J. T. Smith Bk. for Rainy Day 66 Charles Townley, Esq...pouched me half a guinea to purchase paper and chalk. 1864Hemyng Eton School Days i. 4 ‘Did your governor ‘pouch’ you?’ asked Purefoy, as they were going towards the Station. 1880[see pouch n. 5].
5. Dressmaking.
a. To make or arrange (a part of dress) so as to hang loosely in a pouch-like form.
b. intr. said of the dress.
1897Daily News 6 July 8/4 The muslin is lightly pouched over the belt. 1902Daily Tel. 2 Aug. 3/3 The bodice is cut..tightly fitting at the back and sides and below the waist, yet pouching over in the front.
6. intr. To form a pouch or pouch-like cavity. (See 5 b, and pouching vbl. n.)
Hence (chiefly in sense 6) ˈpouching vbl. n. (also quasi-concr.) and ppl. a.
1680Bunyan Badman Wks. (ed. Virtue) 450 He would stand gloating, and hanging down his head in a sullen, pouching manner. 1698Tyson in Phil. Trans. XX. 130 The pouching or bagging out at both Extreams. 1847–9Todd's Cycl. Anat. IV. 791/1 Dilations or pouchings can nowhere be seen. 1849–52Ibid. V. 847/1 The great omentum is a pouching out of the meso-gastrium. 1899Westm. Gaz. 16 Feb. 3/2 The balloon sleeve and the pouching bodice were all too kind to the careless. |