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A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).

A turn or lashing of spun yarn or small stuff, or a metallic clasp or fastening, uniting the point and shank of a hook to prevent its unhooking or straighening out.

A kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed.

among organic compounds. Formerly called also naphthaline. Naphthalene red (Chem.), a dyestuff obtained from certain diazo derivatives of naphthylamine, and called also magdala red. -- Naphthalene yellow (Chem.), a yellow dyestuff obtained from certain nitro derivatives of naphthol.

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

l (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).

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

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