stuffing

Noun

Synonyms: dressing

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetablesSynonyms: dressing
padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.— Gay.[1913 Webster]

Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

2.To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack. [1913 Webster]

Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

3.To fill by being pressed or packed into. [1913 Webster]

With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

4.(Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey. [1913 Webster]

5.To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration. [1913 Webster]

I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

6.To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals. [1913 Webster]

7.To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material. [1913 Webster]

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.[1913 Webster]

8.To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies. [1913 Webster]

9.To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.] [1913 Webster]

Stuffing \Stuff"ing\, n.

1.That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion. [1913 Webster]

2.(Cookery) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. [1913 Webster]

3.A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]