Stuffing definitions

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

STUFFING, ppr. Filling; crowding.
STUFFING, n.
1. That which is used for filling any thing; as the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
2. Seasoning for meat; that which is put into meat to give it a higher relish.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables [syn: stuffing, dressing]
2: padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century material used to stuff; especially a seasoned mixture used to stuff food (as meat, vegetables, or eggs)

U.S. Military Dictionary

Packing of cargo into a container. See also unstuffing. (JP 4-09)

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 padding used to stuff cushions etc. 2 a mixture used to stuff poultry etc., esp. before cooking. Phrases and idioms: knock (or take) the stuffing out of colloq. make feeble or weak; defeat. stuffing-box a box packed with material, to allow the working of an axle while remaining airtight.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stuffing Stuff"ing, n. 1. That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion. 2. (Cookery) 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 impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Stuff Stuff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. ['e]toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. ['e]touffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.] 1. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick. Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown. --Gay. Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin. --Dryden. 2. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color. --Bacon. 3. To fill by being pressed or packed into. With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. --Dryden. 4. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey. 5. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. --Shak. 6. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals. 7. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal. --Swift. 8. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies. 9. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(stuffings) 1. Stuffing is a mixture of food that is put inside a bird such as a chicken, or a vegetable such as a pepper, before it is cooked. Chestnuts can be used at Christmas time, as a stuffing for turkey, guinea fowl or chicken. N-MASS 2. Stuffing is material that is used to fill things such as cushions or toys in order to make them firm or solid.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Filling full. 2. Dressing, force-meat.

Moby Thesaurus

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