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Pouched

Pouch \Pouch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pouched; p. pr. & vb. n. Pouching.]

  1. To put or take into a pouch.

  2. To swallow; -- said of fowls.
    --Derham.

  3. To pout. [Obs.]
    --Ainsworth.

  4. To pocket; to put up with. [R.]
    --Sir W. Scott.

Pouched

Pouched \Pouched\, a. (Zo["o]l.)

  1. Having a marsupial pouch; as, the pouched badger, or the wombat.

  2. Having external cheek pouches; as, the pouched gopher.

  3. Having internal cheek pouches; as, the pouched squirrels.

    Pouched dog. (Zo["o]l.) See Zebra wolf, under Zebra.

    Pouched frog (Zo["o]l.), the nototrema, the female of which has a dorsal pouch in which the eggs are hatched, and in which the young pass through their brief tadpole stage.

    Pouched gopher, or Pouched rat. (Zo["o]l.) See Pocket gopher, under Pocket.

    Pouched mouse. (Zo["o]l.) See Pocket mouse, under Pocket.

Wiktionary
pouched
  1. Having a pouch or pouches. v

  2. (en-past of: pouch)

WordNet
pouched

adj. having a pouch

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Usage examples of "pouched".

I thanked him, and after he had pouched the double-louis I slipped politely into his hand, he went away assuring me that I should soon experience an improvement in my health.

As he walked deliberately across, his fined, pouched face assumed a professional greetees smile.

The headlights swung, the black stones turning to white and three pelicans pulled pouched beaks from under their wings in slow motion.

By and by a pretty big lump, doughed up round, fell close to my foot, and, watching a favourable opportunity, I pouched it.

I noted many kinds, those huge and hooded and furled on long sticks, enclosing the springs of their own alertness, or drowsy and pouched, nocturnal orchids, vines and ivies, showering ferns, palms in their rectitude, or those murky and velvet, or redolent of the limpness of old summers, or pale as lizards.

There is a pouched mouse in Australia, though in this case the resemblance is not so close and it does not make its living in quite the same way.