Baggage : (noun)
1: a case used to carry belongings when traveling [syn: luggage]
2: a worthless or immoral woman
Based on WordNet 2.0
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Baggage : \Bag"gage\, n. [F. bagage, from OF. bague bungle. In
senses 6 and 7 cf. F. bagasse a prostitute. See Bag, n.]
1. The clothes, tents, utensils, and provisions of an army.
Note: ``The term itself is made to apply chiefly to articles
of clothing and to small personal effects.'' --Farrow.
2. The trunks, valises, satchels, etc., which a traveler
carries with him on a journey; luggage.
The baronet's baggage on the roof of the coach.
--Thackeray.
We saw our baggage following below. --Johnson.
Note: The English usually call this luggage.
3. Purulent matter. [Obs.] --Barrough.
4. Trashy talk. [Obs.] --Ascham.
5. A man of bad character. [Obs.] --Holland.
6. A woman of loose morals; a prostitute.
A disreputable, daring, laughing, painted French
baggage. --Thackeray.
7. A romping, saucy girl. [Playful] --Goldsmith.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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BAGGAGE. Such articles as are carried by a traveller; luggage. Every thing
which a passenger, carries, with him is not baggage. Large sums of money,
for example, carried in a travelling trunk, will not be considered baggage,
so as to render the carrier responsible. 9 Wend. R. 85. But a watch
deposited in his trunk is part of his baggage. 10 Ohio R. 145. See, as to
what is baggage, 6 Hill, R. 586 5 Rawle, 188, 189; 1 Pick. 50.
2. In general a common carrier of passengers is responsible for
baggage, if lost, though no distinct price be paid for transporting it, it
being included in the passenger's fare. Id. The carrier's responsibility for
theBaggage : begins as soon as it has been delivered to him, or to his
servants, or to some other person authorized by him to receive it. Then the
delivery is complete. The risk and responsibility of the carrier is at an
end as soon as he has delivered the baggage to the owner or his agent; and
if an offer to deliver it be made at a proper time, the carrier will be
discharged from responsibility, us 'such yet, if the baggage remain in his
custody afterwards, he will hold as, bailee, and be responsible for it
according to the terms of such bailment ana, R. 92. Vide Common Carriers
3. By the act of congress of March 2, 1799, sect. 46, 1 Story's L. U.
S. 612, it is declared that all wearing apparel and other personal baggage,
&c., of persons who shall arrive in the United States, shall be free and
exempted from duty.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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