baggily 
baggily (bag'i-li), adi: In a loose or baggy way. 
bagginess (bag'i-nes), n. [< baggy + -WCKS.] 
The state or quality of being baggy. 
There was a baiigintss about the trousers which indi- 
cated the work-a-day costume of a man of might. 
National Baptist, XVIII. C. 
bagging 1 (bag'ing), re. [Verbal n. of &</!.] 1. 
The act of putting into bags. 2. Filtration 
through canvas bags. 
Separation of "browu paraffin scale" is effected by bag- 
ging and pressing. Ure, Diet., III. 511. 
The first operation needed to fit spermaceti for use is 
technically termed bay<jin>i. The crude sperm oil, as 
brought in by the whalers, is placed in a reservoir, at the 
bottom of which are a number of pipes leading into long 
bags lined with linen, and temporarily closed at tile bot- 
tom by tying cords round the mouths. 
W. L. Carpenter, Soap and Candles, p. 241. 
3. Any coarse woven fabric of hemp, etc., out 
of which bags are made, or which is used for 
covering cotton-bales and for similar purposes. 
4. In the northern counties of England, food 
eaten between regular meals ; now, especially 
in Lancashire, an afternoon meal, ' ' afternoon 
tea " in a substantial form. N. K. I). 
bagging 2 (bag'ing), n. [Verbal n. of bag 2 .] A 
method of reaping corn or pulse by chopping 
it with a hook. 
bagginglyt, adv. [ME., < lagge, q. v.] With a 
leering expression. Bom. of the Rose. 
bagging-time (bag'ing-tim), re. [E. dial., < 
bagging + time.'} Lunch-time. 
baggit (bag'it), n. [Sc., prop. p. a., = E. 
bagged.] A female salmon after spawning. 
baggy (bag'i), a. [< bagi + -yi.] Having the 
appearance of a bag ; bulging out loosely like a 
bag; puffy: as, a baggy umbrella ; a baggy face. 
We untwisted our turbans, kicked off our baggy trow- 
sers. B. Tat/lor, Lands of the Saracen, p. 106. 
He looked like a Hindoo idol, with his heavy-lidded orbs 
and baggy cheeks. 
T. B. Aldrich, Ponkapog to Pesth, p. 204. 
bag-holder (bag'hol'der), n. A contrivance 
for supporting a bag and holding it open dur- 
ing the process of filling it. 
Bagimont's Roll. See roll. 
baglo, bagla, n. See baggala. 
bag-machine (bag'ma-shen*), n. A machine 
for making paper bags. 
bagman (bag'man), n. ; pi. bagmen (-men). 
One who carries a bag; especially, one who 
travels on horseback carrying samples or wares 
in saddle-bags : a name formerly given to com- 
mercial travelers, but now used only as a term 
of moderate contempt. 
bagne (F. pron. bany), n. [F.] Same as 
bagnio, 3. 
bag-net (bag'net), n. An interwoven net in 
the form of a bag for catching or landing fish. 
bagnet (bag'net), n. An obsolete or dialectal 
form of bayonet. 
bagnio (ban'yo), n. [Early mod. E. also bagno, 
banio, < It. bagno (> F. bagne in sense 3) = Sp. 
baflo = F. bain (see bain 2 ), < L. balneum, a bath : 
see balneum.] 1. A bath ; a house for bathing, 
cupping, sweating, and otherwise cleansing the 
body. 2. A brothel; a stew. 3. In the Turk- 
ish empire, a prison in general; in France, for- 
merly, one of the great prisons (bagnes) substi- 
tuted for the galleys, now superseded by trans- 
portation : perhaps so called from the former use 
of ancient baths in Constantinople as prisons. 
Bagnolian (bag-no'li-an), n. [From Bagnols, 
in the department of Gard, France, where the 
heresy had its rise.] One of a sect of French 
heretics of the eighth century, who rejected 
the whole of the Old and part of the New Tes- 
tament, and generally held the doctrines of the 
Manicheans. The name was again applied in 
the thirteenth century to some of the Cathari. 
They were also called 
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air is pressed from the bag by the performer's 
elbow. It originated in the East, was known to tile 
(Jreeks ami Romans, \v:is popular in Europe throughout 
tile middle ages, and is still used in many eastern coun- 
tries, as well as among the country people of Poland, 
Italy, the south of Finance, and in Scotland and Ireland. 
Though now often regarded as the national instrument of 
Scotland, especially Celtic Scotland, its origin and use 
seem to belong to the Celtic race in general. In its best- 
known form it has four pipes. One of these, called the 
chanter, has a double reed and eight finger-holes, so that 
melodies may be played upon it. Its compass may be ap- 
proximately indicated thus : 
bahut 
tcction, and moves with it hanging downward; it has 
also received the names basket-worm, drop-worm, etc. The 
male insect hiis well-developed wings, but the female is 
apterous, and lays her eggs within the pupariura. 
T 
Bag-pump. 
valved disk 
bag-nut (bag'nut), n. 
The bladder-nut of Eu- 
rope, Staphylea pin- 
nata. 
bagonet (bag'o-net), re. 
[Of. bagnet.] ' An ob- 
solete or dialectal form 
of bayonet. 
bagpipe (bag'pip), n. 
[ME. baggepipe; < bag 1 
+ pipe,] A musical 
wind-instrument con- 
sisting of a leathern 
bag, which receives the 
air from the mouth, or 
from bellows, and of 
pipes, into which the 
Old English Bagpipe. 
There are three other pipes, called drones, with a single 
reed, which give a continuous sound, and are tuned in 
various ways. There are several kinds of bagpipes, as 
the Scotch (Highland and Lowland), which is the most 
important, most characteristic, best known, and perhaps 
the oldest ; the English, or perhaps more properly North- 
umbrian, a feeble instrument, no longer in use ; and the 
Irish, which is the most elaborate and most in accordance 
with modem ideas of musical accuracy. The word is now 
used chiefly in the plural, especially in Scotland. 
bagpipe (bag'pip), v. t. ; pret, and pp. bagpiped, 
ppr. bagpiping. [< bagpipe, n.] To cause to 
resemble a bagpipe To bagpipe the mizzen 
(naut.), to lay it aback oy bringing the sheet to the iniz- 
zen-shrouds. 
bagpiper (bag'pi'per), re. [ME. baggepipere ; < 
bagpipe + -er 1 .] One who plays on a bagpipe. 
Laugh, like parrots, at a bagpiper. Shak., M. of V., i. 1. 
bag-press (bag'pres), n. A press 
in which the materials to be 
pressed are inclosed in sacks or 
bags of linen or hair, it is used in 
various manufacturing processes, as in 
the expressing of oil from seeds. 
bag-pudding (ba^'pud^ing), re. A 
pudding boiled in a bag. 
bag-pump (bag'pump), re. A form 
of bellows-pump in which there 
is an elastic bag, distended at in- 
tervals by rings, fastened at one 
end to the bottom of the piston- 
chamber, and at the other to the which takes the 
valve-disk. , of thc 
B. Agr. An abbreviation of Bach- 
elor of Agriculture, a title conferred by agricul- 
tural colleges. See bachelor. 
bagrationite (ba-gra'shon-It), re. [After P. E. 
Bagration: see -ite 2 .] A mineral from the 
Ural, resembling some forms of allanite, of 
which it is probably a variety. 
bag-reef (bag'ref), . The lowest reef of a 
fore-and-aft sail, or the first reef of a topsail. 
Bagrinae (ba-gri'ne), n. pi. [NL., < Bagrus + 
-ina!.] A subfamily of catfishes, of the family 
Silurida?. They have the anterior and posterior nos- 
trils remote from one another, the latter being provided 
with barbels ; palatal teeth ; gill-membranes free from the 
isthmus ; a short anal fin ; a long adipose fin ; and a short 
dorsal fin in front of the ventral fins. There are many 
species, mostly Asiatic and East Indian. 
bag-room (bag'rom), n. A room on a man-of- 
war where the clothing-bags of the crew are 
stored. Luce. 
Bagrus (bag'rus), n. [NL., < Sp. Pg. bagrc, 
a fish, Silurus bagre.] The typical genus of 
catfishes of the subfamily Bagrina?. Two spe- 
cies, attaining a length of 5 or 6 feet, are found 
in the Nile. 
Bagshot beds. See bedi. 
bag-trousers (bag'trou'zerz), re. pi. The cover- 
ing for the legs worn by men in the Levant, and 
to a certain extent by all Mohammedan peoples. 
It consists of an undivided bag with two holes in the bot- 
tom, through which the feet are passed. It is drawn up 
with a cord, and tied around the waist and around the 
ankles, or above them, and is commonly so full as nearly 
to reach the ground in falling over the feet. The trousers 
of the women are more commonly made with two legs, 
like European drawers or trousers. See petticoat-trousers 
and shinti-yan. 
baguet, baguette (ba-gef), n. [< F. baguette, 
a wand, rod, stick, < It. bacclwtta. a rod, stick, 
dim. of bacchio, a rod, pole, < L. baculum, a 
rod, stick: see baculus.] In arch., a small 
convex semicircular molding: usually called 
when plain a bead, when enriched with foliage 
a chaplet. 
bag-wig (bag'wig), re. A wig the back hair of 
wnich was inclosed in a bag. See bag^, 3. 
Expect at every turn to come upon intriguing spectres 
in bag-trig*, immense hoops and patches. 
Howells, Venetian Life, xxi. 
bagwigged (bag'wigd), a. Wearing a bag-wig. 
bag-worm (bag'werm), re. The larva of a 
lepidopterous insect, Thyridopteryx ephemerai- 
formis (Harris), common throughout the more 
northern part of the United States. The larva is 
called bag-worm because it spins a silken bog for its pro- 
Bag-worm ( Thyridopteryx tpJiemeraformis}, larva and moths, 
natural size. 
a, larva ; *, male chrysalis ; c, female moth ; it, male moth ; e, fe- 
male chrysalis in hag (sectional view);/, caterpillar and bag; e, 
very young caterpillars in their bags. 
bagwynt, . In her., a fabulous beast, like an 
antelope with a horse's tail. Cussans. 
bah (ba), interj. [< F. bah, interj. of contempt.] 
An exclamation expressing contempt, disgust, 
or incredulity. 
Twenty-five years ago the vile ejaculation bah ! was ut- 
terly unknown to the English public. De Quincey. 
bahadur (ba-ha'dor), n. [Hind, bahadur, brave, 
gallant; as a noun, a hero, champion.] A 
title of respect commonly affixed to the 
names of European officers in Indian docu- 
ments, or used in ceremonious mention by na- 
tives : as, Jones Sahib Bahadur. It may be com- 
pared to the phrase "gallant officer" of parliamentary 
courtesy, or the " illustrissimo signore " of the Italians. 
It was conferred as a title of honor by the Great Mogul, 
and by other native princes. Yule and Burnett, Anglo- 
Ind. Glossary. 
Bahama grass, sponge, etc. See the nouns. 
bahar (ba-hiir' ), n. [Also baar, barr, barre ; < Ar. 
bahdr.] An Eastern measure of weight, vary- 
ing considerably in different localities and ac- 
cording to the substances weighed, in Mozam- 
bique it is about 250 pounds, in Mocha 450 pounds, in Su- 
matra and Ceylon 440 pounds. It is also used as a mea- 
sure of capacity. 
bahrainga (ba-ring'gii), re. [E. Ind.] A name 
of an East Indian deer ; the spotted deer of the 
Sunderbunds or swampy parts of the Ganges 
delta ; the Rucerviis duvaucelli. 
bahut 1 (ba-h6f), n. [F., formerly also bahu, 
balms, bahitce (= Pr. bauc = Pg. bahu, bahul = 
Sp. baul=lt. baule), a chest, trunk, with arched 
top, prob. < MHG. behuot, bchut, a keeping, 
guarding, a magazine, < behnoten, behiieten, Or. 
beJiiiten, keep, guard, < be- (=E. fte- 1 ) + OHG. 
hnotcn, MHG. hiieten, G. hiiten, keep, = E. heed, 
q. v.] 1. A chest, often with an arched or con- 
vex top, and frequently covered with leather, 
richly carved, or otherwise ornamented. Such 
Bahut. French i6th century work. ( From " L' Art pour Tous." 
chests were a universal and very important article of fur- 
niture during the medieval and Renaissance periods. 
2. An ornamental cabinet, especially one hav- 
ing doors. See cabinet. 3. Inarch.: (a) The 
convex crowning course of a wall or parapet. 
Victor Gay. (b) In great medieval buildings, 
a low wall supporting the roof behind the gut- 
