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A dyestuff, resembling alizarin, obtained from naphthoquinone as a red crystalline substance with a bright green, metallic luster; -- called also naphthalizarin.

ol (carbolic) odor. Naphthol blue, Naphthol orange, Naphthol yellow (Chem.), brilliant dyestuffs produced from certain complex nitrogenous derivatives of naphthol or naphthoquinone.

The stuff of which a nebula is formed.

The complex, nitrogenous, organic base and dyestuff called also aniline black.

A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.

A reddish brown amorphous dyestuff,

A stuffed seat without a back, originally used in Turkey.

External form; exterior. [R.] So fair an outward and such stuff within. Shak.

The substance in a stuffing box, through which a piston rod slides.

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

The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

A rich and heavy silk stuff. [Written also padesoy.]

An artifical red nitrogenous dyestuff, called also red coralline.

A kind of rich stuff used for garments in the Middle Ages. [Obs.] Wyclif (Esther viii. 15).

psin, steapsin and an amylolytic ferment, by which it acts upon all three classes of food stuffs. See Pancreas.

howing the bright colored silk, or the like, within; hence, the piece of colored or other stuff so shown.

ves which are used in cookery and as a garnish. As she went to the garden for parsley, to stuff a rabbit. Shak. Fool's parsley. See under Fool. -- Hedge parsley, Milk parsley, Stone parsley, names given to various weeds of similar appearance to the parsley. -- Parsley fern (Bot.), a small fern with leaves resembling…

Stuff sufficient for a garment; as, a dress pattern.

To stuff with food. [Obs.] Udall.

line substance, C6H4.(CO2H)2, analogous to benzoic acid, and employed in the brilliant dyestuffs called the phthaleins.