Definition of pouch

• n. - A small bag; usually, a leathern bag; as, a pouch for money; a shot pouch; a mail pouch, etc.
• n. - That which is shaped like, or used as, a pouch
• n. - A protuberant belly; a paunch; -- so called in ridicule.
• n. - A sac or bag for carrying food or young; as, the cheek pouches of certain rodents, and the pouch of marsupials.
• n. - A cyst or sac containing fluid.
• n. - A silicle, or short pod, as of the shepherd's purse.
• n. - A bulkhead in the hold of a vessel, to prevent grain, etc., from shifting.
• v. t. - To put or take into a pouch.
• v. t. - To swallow; -- said of fowls.
• v. t. - To pout.
• v. t. - To pocket; to put up with.