[f. the sb.]
1. intr. To swell out as a bag, to bulge; Naut. to drop away from the direct course, to sag.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 21. Baggyn, or bocyn owte, Tumeo.
1650. Fuller, Pisgah, II. x. 211. A corner of Ephraim, which baggeth into the south.
1657. S. Purchas, Pol. Flying-Ins., 142. Sometimes one side of the ear is good corn, and the other bags … and … will be smutty.
1676. Wiseman, Chirurg. Treat., I. xviii. 87. The Skin seemed much contracted; yet it bagg’d, and had near a Porrenger-full of Matter in it.
a. 1848. Marryat, R. Reefer, xxxvi. He was bagging to leeward, like a … barge laden with a hay-stack.
b. To hang loosely like clothes that are too big.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., I. 265. Coat, which bagged loosely about him.
1859. I. Taylor, Logic in Theol., 205. Dingy embroidered trappings … seen bagging upon the wooden effigies.
† 2. intr. To be pregnant. (Also to be bagged.)
a. 1400. [see BAGGED].
1530. Palsgr., 442/2. I bagge, as a doe dothe that is with faune … Se howe yonder doe is bagged.
1589. Warner, Alb. Eng., VI. xxx. (1597), 148. Wel, Venus shortly bagged, and ere long was Cupid bread.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 597 (R.). The females, or does … will conceive and be bagged.
1616. [see BAGGED].
3. trans. To cause to swell or bulge; to cram full.
1583. Stanyhurst, Aeneis, II. (Arb.), 51. Thee mischeuus engyn, Ful bagd with weapons.
1620. Eccl. Proc. Durh., Newcastle-on-T., The chest … was bagd up with monye.
a. 1656. Bp. Hall, Fall of Pride, Wks. II. 408 (T.). How doth an unwelcome dropsie bagge up the eyes.
1757. Smeaton, in Phil. Trans., L. 204. Almost all the lights [= windows] in the church, tho’ not broke were bagged outward.
4. trans. To put into a bag or bags. To bag up: to put up in a bag; to shut or store up generally.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 139. Good husbandrie baggeth vp gold in his chest.
1577. Holinshed, England, III. viii. 54. They [saffron chives] are dried and pressed into cakes, and then bagged up.
1711. Act in Lond. Gaz., No. 4874/1. The precise Day … on which … they shall Bag … their Hops.
1798. W. Hutton, Autobiog., 12. I undressed, bagged up my things in decent order, and prepared for rest.
1870. Lowell, Study Wind., 1. Stopping … to bag a specimen.
5. To put game killed into a bag; also, to kill game (without reference to the bag).
1814. Month. Mag., XXXVII. 238. To allow the royal sportsman to bag more birds than himself.
1844. Hawker, Instr. Yng. Sportsmen, 148. To bag a dozen head of game without missing.
1859. Jephson, Brittany, ix. 150. My friend thus bagged two wolves.
6. colloq. To seize, catch, take possession of, steal.
1818. Moore, Fudge Fam. Paris, vi. Who can help to bag a few, When Sidmouth wants a death or two.
1824. Byron, Juan, XVI. lxii. The constable … Had bagg’d this poacher upon Nature’s manor.
1857. Hughes, Tom Brown, II. iii. 268. The idea of being led up to the Doctor … for bagging fowls.
1861. Max Müller, Chips (1880), II. xxiv. 243. A stray story may thus be bagged in the West-end of London.
