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bag

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Searchable Lemmata: bagge (ME), bagge (AF), bag (Norn), baga (L), bag (OScots), baga (Ir), bag (MdE).
Alternate Forms: bage, bageis, bagg, bagges, baggue, bagia, bagis, bagke, bague, bagus, bayge.

    Definitions and Defining Citations:

1a(n.) Accessory; receptacle for collecting or storing things; sack; purse; pouch; container or receptacle of leather or cloth.(1284 still in current use)
1. Hit is beggilde riht to beore bagge on bac ... Trussen & purses, baggen & packes beoð worltliche þinges. [MED Ancr. ((Corp-C 402) 45a) circa 1225/1240]
2. pro reparacione baggorum in quibus dictum mel imponebatur et pro cordis emptis ad dictos baggos ligandos Accounts, Legal. [DMLBS KR (Ac 351/9 m. 8) 1284]
3. bage et cofyne cum brevibus et aliis secretis domini regis ... sigillate et posite in quibusdam cistis Accounts. (for documents) [DMLBS DocExch. (60) 1290]
4. Pus le versez ens une bage de canevaz Medical. [AND Pop Med (283) circa 1200/1300]
5. qe voleyt qil li avoyt vendu un molyn foleret ... pristrent lor roulez e lez misterent en lor bagges Accounts, Legal. (green-)bag (bag of green material formerly used by lawyers for documents) [AND YBB Ed I (30-31, 255) circa 1292/1307]
6. per bagam coronatoris comitatus predicti ... affilantur in baga Bedeford de secretis(KB ControlmtR) ['baga de secretis' here refers to the bag for King's Bench indictments concerning affairs of state] [DMLBS EHR (XXIII 513) 1357]
7. [B.124] ... Youre bagges been noght filled with ambes as, But with sys cynk ... [B.137] ... Clothes of gold and satyns riche of hewe [vr. hue] Poetic. [MED Chaucer CT.ML. ((Manly-Rickert) B.124-137) circa 1390]
8. [331a/a] ... Philaterium is a litel vessel of glas oþer of Cristal in þe whiche holy relikes ben y kepte. Also þe perchemyn in þe which Jewes writen þe lawe for to biholde. ... Fiscus is a comyn sak or a bagge in þe whiche þe eschetour and rente gaderers doþ þe commune dette and custume ... [332a/a] ... Þe perche is ten foote longe, as ezechiel his cane made and mesured mistikliche þe temple(citations from text may not appear in original order) [MED *Trev.Barth. ((Add 27944) 331a/a-332a/a) ante 1398]
9. For mendyng of ye bagge of ye grete leger ... i d. Accounts. [for protecting documents] [MED Acc.St.Mary Thame in BBOAJ 13 (51) 1448]
10. With a 3 cornered pece of a felte or with a saccle i. bag be þe water ytaken. ... R[ecipe] ... rawe silke propreli of þe flok or huske [L folliculo; *Ch.(2): flokke or slogh] of þe worme smal kutted Medical. [MED *Chauliac(1) ((NY 12) 180a/a-b) ante 1425]
AF, L, ME, MdE, Norn, OScots.
Sex: Male, Female    Use: n/a    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1b(n.) Law/Custom; bag as a unit of measure; containing various commodities such as grain, alum, etc.(circa 1300 ?)
1. [340] ... In dimidia baga Cepi..iiij s. ... [348] ... In j baga furmag. ... Accounts. (dating uncertain) [MED Sub.R.Lynn in Nrf.Archaeol.1 (340-348) circa 1300]
2. Mathee Daniel: j bague de alum cust. j d. Port Bks 46; .j. bag de greine poisant iiij. li. ... i sack de coton filé ... xi bales de gallés ... ii bales de coton turk ... ii sak de coton surrien Accounts, Legal. [AND Local Port Bk (110) 1435/1436]
AF, L, ME.
Sex: N/A    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1c(n.) Law/Custom; 'Petty Bag' used by the Department of the Chancery.(circa 1389 ?)
1. pertinent ad hanc curiam [sc. Cancellariam] ... clerici parvae Bagiae tres Historic, Other. [DMLBS CAMD. Br. (143)]
L.
Sex: N/A    Use: Secular    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: N/A.
1d(n.) Accessory; a type of very full sleeve.(circa 1400)
1. Now a wrecchid cnave ... muste have .... a costli gowne with bagges hangynge to his kne. [MED in Owst Lit.& Pulpit (369) ante 1400]
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Sex: Male    Use: Secular    Ceremonial: No
Body Parts: Arm.

    Etymological Evidence:

Definite, Old French bague / Middle English. For Norn use, cf. Old Norse baggi (bundle), m.
WF:
Etym Cog: bague (OF), bacas (W), baggi (ON), baga (Ir).
References:
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