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  • English Word Bagging Definition of Bag
  • English Word Bagging Definition Cloth or other material for bags.
  • English Word Bagging Definition The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.
  • English Word Bagging Definition The act of swelling; swelling.
  • English Word Bagging Definition Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.
  • English Word Baggy Definition Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers; baggy cheeks.
  • English Word Bagman Definition A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers and tradesmen.
  • English Word Bagmen Definition of Bagman
  • English Word Bagnio Definition A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; -- also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves.
  • English Word Bagnio Definition A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.
  • English Word Bagpipe Definition A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
  • English Word Bagpipe Definition To make to look like a bagpipe.
  • English Word Bagpiper Definition One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper.
  • English Word Bagreef Definition The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails.
  • English Word Bague Definition The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
  • English Word Baguet Definition Alt. of Baguette
  • English Word Baguette Definition A small molding, like the astragal, but smaller; a bead.
  • English Word Baguette Definition One of the minute bodies seen in the divided nucleoli of some Infusoria after conjugation.
  • English Word Bagwig Definition A wig, in use in the 18th century, with the hair at the back of the head in a bag.
  • English Word Bagworm Definition One of several lepidopterous insects which construct, in the larval state, a baglike case which they carry about for protection. One species (Platoeceticus Gloveri) feeds on the orange tree. See Basket worm.
  • English Word Bah Definition An exclamation expressive of extreme contempt.
  • English Word Bahar Definition A weight used in certain parts of the East Indies, varying considerably in different localities, the range being from 223 to 625 pounds.
  • English Word Baigne Definition To soak or drench.
  • English Word Bail Definition A bucket or scoop used in bailing water out of a boat.
  • English Word Bail Definition To lade; to dip and throw; -- usually with out; as, to bail water out of a boat.
  • English Word Bail Definition To dip or lade water from; -- often with out to express completeness; as, to bail a boat.
  • English Word Bail Definition To deliver; to release.
  • English Word Bail Definition To set free, or deliver from arrest, or out of custody, on the undertaking of some other person or persons that he or they will be responsible for the appearance, at a certain day and place, of the person bailed.
  • English Word Bail Definition To deliver, as goods in trust, for some special object or purpose, upon a contract, expressed or implied, that the trust shall be faithfully executed on the part of the bailee, or person intrusted; as, to bail cloth to a tailor to be made into a garment; to bail goods to a carrier.
  • English Word Bail Definition Custody; keeping.