Word Meanings - CUSHIONY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens.

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• PLIABLE
  1. Capable of being plied, turned, or bent; easy to be bent; flexible; pliant; supple; limber; yielding; as, willow is a pliable plant. 2. Flexible in disposition; readily yielding to influence, arguments, persuasion, or discipline; easy to be
• CUSHIONLESS
  Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.
• CUSHION TIRE
  A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• 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.
• UNAPPLIABLE
  Inapplicable. Milton.
• COMPLIABLE
  Capable of bending or yielding; apt to yield; compliant. Another compliable mind. Milton. The Jews . . . had made their religion compliable, and accemodated to their passions. Jortin.
• 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.
• APPLIABLE
  Applicable; also, compliant. Howell.
• MULTIPLIABLE
  Capable of being multiplied. -- Mul"ti*pli`a*ble*ness, n.
• PINCUSHION
  A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.
• LADY'S CUSHION
  An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift .
• IMPLIABLE
  Not pliable; inflexible; inyielding.
• INCOMPLIABLE
  Not compliable; not conformable.
• SEA PINCUSHION
  A sea purse. A pentagonal starfish.