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iven to a ball in striking it that influences the direction it will take after touching a cushion or another ball. The King's, or Queen's, English. See under King.

Anything serving as a cushion to lessen the shock when a vessel comes in contact with another vessel or a wharf.

The cushionlike projection, bearing a tuft of long hair, on the back side of the leg above the hoof of the horse and similar animals. Also, the joint of the limb at this point (between the great pastern bone and the metacarpus), or the tuft of hair. Their wounded steeds Fret fetlock deep in gore. Shak.…

Hair (human or animal) used for various purposes; as, hair for stuffing cushions.

A small stuffed cushion or footstool, for kneeling on in church, or for home use. And knees and hassocks are well nigh divorced. Cowper.

A cushion or stool to kneel on.

A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.

A soft, or small, cushion; a mass of anything soft; stuffing.

A panel or cushion saddle; the under pad or cushion of saddle; esp., a pad or cushion put on behind a man's saddle, on which a woman may ride. His [a soldier's] shank pillion without stirrups. Spenser.

A kind of plain, coarse fustian. Lace pillow, a cushion used in making hand-wrought lace. -- Pillow bier Etym: [OE. pilwebere; cf. LG. büre a pillowcase], a pillowcase; pillow slip. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- Pillow block (Mach.), a block, or standard, for supporting a journal, as of a shaft. It is usually bolted to the fram…

A soft cushion, esp. one circular in shape and not, like a pilow, of bag form, or thin at the edges.

of steam, to the engine cylinder before the back stroke is completed, thus increasing the cushioning.

free ferns of the genus Cibotium, chiefly C. Menziesii; -- used for stuffing mattresses, cushions, etc., and as an absorbent.

One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

Having the form of a cushion.

greater accuracy of play. The court has a wood border often faced with rubber, used as a cushion in bank shots. The balls are 3¼ in. in diameter, the cage (center arches or wickets) 3 3/8 in. wide, the other arches 3½ in. wide.

The cushion of an electrical machine.

A scent bag, or perfume cushion, to be laid among handkerchiefe, garments, etc., to perfume them.

fine igneous particles. As the electrical globe only scintillates when rubbed against its cushion. Sir W. Scott.

e size, and have their seeds enveloped in a cottony substance, which is used for stuffing cushions, but can not be spun. -- Silk flower. (Bot.) (a) The silk tree. (b) A similar tree (Calliandra trinervia) of Peru. -- Silk fowl (Zoöl.), a breed of domestic fowls having silky plumage. -- Silk gland (Zoöl.), a gland wh…