6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French baggage.
Thackeray.
7. A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] Goldsmith.
Baggage master
(Bag"gage mas`ter) One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon
a line of public travel. [U.S.]
Baggager
(Bag"ga*ger) n. One who takes care of baggage; a camp follower. [Obs.] Sir W. Raleigh.
Baggala
(||Bag"ga*la) n. [Ar. "fem. of baghl a mule." Balfour.] (Naut.) A two-masted Arab or Indian
trading vessel, used in the Indian Ocean.
Baggily
(Bag"gi*ly) adv. In a loose, baggy way.
Bagging
(Bag"ging), n.
1. Cloth or other material for bags.
2. The act of putting anything into, or as into, a bag.
3. The act of swelling; swelling.
Bagging
(Bag"ging), n. [Etymol. uncertain.] Reaping peas, beans, wheat, etc., with a chopping stroke.
[Eng.]
Baggy
(Bag"gy) a. Resembling a bag; loose or puffed out, or pendent, like a bag; flabby; as, baggy trousers;
baggy cheeks.
Bagman
(Bag"man) n.; pl. Bagmen A commercial traveler; one employed to solicit orders for manufacturers
and tradesmen. Thackeray.
Bag net
(Bag" net`) A bag-shaped net for catching fish.
Bagnio
(Bagn"io) n. [It. bagno, fr. L. balneum. Cf. Bain.]
1. A house for bathing, sweating, etc.; — also, in Turkey, a prison for slaves. [Obs.]
2. A brothel; a stew; a house of prostitution.
Bagpipe
(Bag"pipe) n. A musical wind instrument, now used chiefly in the Highlands of Scotland.
It consists of a leather bag, which receives the air by a tube that is stopped by a valve; and three sounding
pipes, into which the air is pressed by the performer. Two of these pipes produce fixed tones, namely,
the bass, or key tone, and its fifth, and form together what is called the drone; the third, or chanter,
gives the melody.
Bagpipe
(Bag"pipe), v. t. To make to look like a bagpipe.
To bagpipe the mizzen (Naut.), to lay it aback by bringing the sheet to the mizzen rigging. Totten.
Bagpiper
(Bag"pip`er) n. One who plays on a bagpipe; a piper. Shak.
Bagreef
(Bag"reef`) n. [Bag + reef.] (Naut.) The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of
topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc.
