• 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.