Word Meanings - CUSHIONET - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A little cushion.

Related words: (words related to CUSHIONET)

• LITTLENESS
  The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness.
• CUSHIONLESS
  Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.
• LITTLE-EASE
  An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer.
• CUSHION TIRE
  A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.
• CUSHIONET
  A little cushion.
• 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
• CUSHIONY
  Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens.
• LITTLE
  place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is
• DO-LITTLE
  One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson.
• CORONARY CUSHION
  A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.
• PINCUSHION
  A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.
• LADY'S CUSHION
  An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift .
• SEA PINCUSHION
  A sea purse. A pentagonal starfish.
• BELITTLE
  To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.