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

Additional info about word: CUSHION

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.

Related words: (words related to CUSHION)

• 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
• 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.
• STUFFER
  One who, or that which, stuffs.
• 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.