- (n.) Correction or alteration by writing between the lines; interlineation.
- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Interline.
Interlining and Stuffing
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables.
- synonyms: dressing
- Padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture.
verb
- Cram into a cavity.
- usage: "The child stuffed candy into his pockets"
- synonyms: stuff
- Press or force.
- usage: "Stuff money into an envelope"; "She thrust the letter into his hand"
- Obstruct.
- usage: "My nose is all stuffed"; "Her arteries are blocked"
- Overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself.
- usage: "She stuffed herself at the dinner"; "The kids binged on ice cream"
- synonyms: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut, englut, stuff, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize, gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate, scarf out
- Treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting.
- usage: "stuff a bearskin"
- synonyms: stuff
- Fill tightly with a material.
- usage: "stuff a pillow with feathers"
- synonyms: stuff
- Fill with a stuffing while cooking.
- usage: "Have you stuffed the turkey yet"
WordNet 3.0 © 2006 by Princeton University
- (n.) A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
- (n.) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
- (n.) That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
- (p.pr.&vb.n.) of Stuff.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
(DoD) Packing of cargo into a container. See also unstuffing.
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. 31 January 2011.
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