leucoturic (medicine) and bag(1) (iou)

leucoturic (medicine)

leucoturic
<chemistry> Pertaining to, or designating, a nitrogenous organic substance of the uric acid group, called leucoturic acid or oxalantin. See Oxalantin.

Origin: Leuco- + allantoic + uric.

Source: Websters Dictionary

bag(1) (iou)

bag noun. [bag] ME.
[Perh. from Old Norse baggi bag, bundle, of unkn. origin.]
I.
A receptacle made of flexible material with an open (usu. closable) top (esp. with preceding word indicating its contents or purpose). ME.
diplomatic bag, gamebag, handbag, mailbag, money-bag, paper bag, shoulder bag, sleeping-bag, etc.
R. Hawkins Any man that putteth himself into the enemies port, had need of Argus eyes, and the wind in a bagge. R. Lawler She's got her bags piled up by the stairs, 'n' if she doesn't take to you by tomorrow mornin' she's shiftin' out. S. Plath I cracked open a peanut from the ten-cent bag I had bought..and ate it.
spec.
a. A money-bag; a handbag. LME.
b. A small pouch used to hold the back-hair of a wig. E18.
c. A mailbag. E18.
d. A diplomatic bag. E19.
fig. A concern or preoccupation; one's particular interest or distinctive style. slang. M20.
E. McBain She developed a new bag after she moved, Writing poetry. Wild, huh? A. Glyn He'd never do that. It's just not his bag.
II.
A measure of quantity, varying according to the Nature of the commodity (rare before 17). ME.
The amount of game a sportsman has shot or caught; gen. an amount obtained or achieved in any activity. M19.
N. Mitford Davey..often made little bachelor excursions into it [the wide world] from which he would return with a bag of interesting anecdotes. R. V. Jones My bag was mainly rabbits but over the years I had also shot hares, stoats, pigeons, crows, and jays.
In pl. Much or many (of), lots, heaps. colloq. E20.
J. B. Morton It's not gay, this life, but it might be bags worse. A. Wesker We 'ad bags o' fun, bags o' it.
III.
A fold of skin, esp. under the (human) eye; a dewlap; an udder. LME.
E. Bowen That lamp makes Thomas's face all bags and lines.
A sac in the body of an animal, containing poison, honey, etc. E16.
fig.: Dryden The swelling poison of the several sects Shall burst its bag.
In pl. (Loosely fitting) trousers. colloq. L16.
OXFORD bags.
D. L. Sayers Can't feed with Freddie Arbuthnot in these bags.
A base in Baseball. N. Amer. L19.
A woman, esp. one who is unattractive, elderly, or promiscuous. slang. derog. E20.
M. Dickens I've never really known a pretty girl like you. At the Training college they were all bags. C. Jackson Heaven knows..what hell the old bag would give him if she had [waited for him].
Phrases: a hundred in the water-bag: see WATER noun. bag and baggage (with) all belongings, (of departure) entire, absolute; orig. (Mil.) march out with bag and baggage, march out bag and baggage, make an honourable retreat, leave with equipment etc. intact. bag of bones an emaciated person or animal. bag of mystery slang a sausage. bag of nerves: see NERVE noun. bag of tricks a stock of resources. hold the bag, be left holding the bag be (left) in an awkward situation. in the bag colloq. virtually secured, (as good as) in one's possession or power; captured. let the cat out of the bag: see CAT noun1. MIXED bag. Petty Bag: see PETTY adjective. rough as bags: see ROUGH adjective. the whole bag of tricks everything. tote bag: see TOTE noun4.
Comb.: bag job US slang an illegal search of a suspect's property by a federal agent, esp. to copy or steal incriminating documents; bag lady (chiefly N. Amer.) a homeless woman, esp. an elderly one, who carries her possessions in bags; = SHOPPING-bag lady; bagman (a) a maker of bags or pouches; (b) a person who carries a bag; spec.: derog. a commercial traveller; (slang, chiefly US & Austral.) a person who collects or distributes the proceeds of illicit activities; Austral. a tramp, a vagrant; bag-net a bag-shaped net for catching fish etc. bag people N. Amer. homeless people who carry their possessions in bags; bagpudding arch. a pudding boiled in a bag; bag-shaped adjective shaped like a bag; esp. (of a fishing net) rounded and with an opening at the top; bagstuffer (orig. US) a piece of promotional literature handed to shoppers, esp. one put into shopping-bags at a checkout; bagwash (a laundry that undertakes) the rough unfinished washing of clothes; bag-wig an 18th-cent. wig with the back-hair enclosed in an ornamental bag; bagworm US any of various destructive moth larvae which live within a silken case covered with plant debris.
bagful noun as much or as many as a bag will hold; colloq. a lot: ME.
baglike adjective resembling (that of) a bag M19.

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