a small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.-that which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch-a protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.-a sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.-a cyst or sac containing fluid.-a silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.-a bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.-to put or take into a pouch.-to swallow; -- said of fowls.-to pout.-to pocket; to put up with.