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Pouch mouth

Pouch \Pouch\, n. [F. poche a pocket, pouch, bag; probably of Teutonic origin. See Poke a bag, and cf. Poach to cook eggs, to plunder.]

  1. A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.

  2. That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch; as:

    1. A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.

    2. (Zo["o]l.) A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.

    3. (Med.) A cyst or sac containing fluid.
      --S. Sharp.

    4. (Bot.) A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.

    5. A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.

      Pouch mouth, a mouth with blubbered or swollen lips.