Word Meanings - CUSHION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
cuissin, F. coussin, fr. LL. culcitinum, dim. of L. culcita cushion, mattress, pillow. See Quilt, and cf. Counterpoint a 1. A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad. Two
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cuissin, F. coussin, fr. LL. culcitinum, dim. of L. culcita cushion, mattress, pillow. See Quilt, and cf. Counterpoint a 1. A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad. Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise. Dryden. 2. Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use; as: a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf; a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston; the elastic edge of a billiard table. 3. A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance. Halliwell. Cushion capital. A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature. A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces. -- Cushion star a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.
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- QUILTER
One who, or that which, quilts. - CUSHIONLESS
Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne. - MATERIALNESS
The state of being material. - STUFFING
Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint - COUNTERPOINT
An opposite point Sir E. Sandys. - ELASTIC
1. Springing back; having a power or inherent property of returning to the form from which a substance is bent, drawn, pressed, or twisted; springy; having the power of rebounding; as, a bow is elastic; the air is elastic; India rubber is elastic. - MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley. - PILLOW LACE
Lace made by hand with bobbins on a pillow. - CUSHION TIRE
A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside. - ELASTICITY
1. The quality of being elastic; the inherent property in bodies by which they recover their former figure or dimensions, after the removal of external pressure or altering force; springiness; tendency to rebound; as, the elasticity of caoutchouc; - STUFFINESS
The quality of being stuffy. - ELASTICALLY
In an elastic manner; by an elastic power; with a spring. - MATTRESS
A mass of interwoven brush, poles, etc., to protect a bank from being worn away by currents or waves. (more info) & Pg. almadraque, Pr. almatrac; all from Ar. matsrah a place where anything is thrown, what is thrown under something, fr. tsaraha - CUSHIONET
A little cushion. - COUSSINET
A stone placed on the impost of a pier for receiving the first stone of an arch. That part of the Ionic capital between the abacus and quarter round, which forms the volute. Gwilt. - MATERIALISM
1. The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to - PILLOWY
Like a pillow. Keats. - PILLOW
A piece of metal or wood, forming a support to equalize pressure; a brass; a pillow block. (more info) 1. Anything used to support the head of a person when reposing; especially, a sack or case filled with feathers, down, hair, or other - STUFFER
One who, or that which, stuffs. - RECLINE
To cause or permit to lean, incline, rest, etc., to place in a recumbent position; as, to recline the head on the hand. The mother Reclined her dying head upon his breast. Dryden. - UNELASTICITY
Inelasticity. - IMMATERIALIST
One who believes in or professes, immaterialism. - BEDQUILT
A quilt for a bed; a coverlet. - IMMATERIAL
1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does - DEMATERIALIZE
To deprive of material or physical qualities or characteristics. Dematerializing matter by stripping if of everything which . . . has distinguished matter. Milman. - INELASTICITY
Want of elasticity. - IMMATERIALLY
1. In an immaterial manner; without matter or corporeal substance. 2. In an unimportant manner or degree. - BREADSTUFF
Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made. - COMMATERIAL
Consisting of the same material. Bacon. - SUPERMATERIAL
Being above, or superior to, matter. - UNMATERIAL
Not material; immaterial. Daniel.