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ome soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad. Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise. Dryden.

A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside.

A little cushion.

Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne.

Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens.

A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls.

An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift (Armeria vulgaris).

A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use.

A sea purse.

In the balk-line game, any of eight spaces, 7 inches by 3½, lying along a cushion and bisected transversely by a balk line. Object balls in an anchor space are treated as in balk.

A leather-covered cushion, fastened to a handle called a ballstock; -- formerly used by printers for inking the form, but now superseded by the roller.

A game played with ivory balls o a cloth-covered, rectangular table, bounded by elastic cushions. The player seeks to impel his ball with his cue so that it shall either strike (carom upon) two other balls, or drive another ball into one of the pockets with which the table sometimes is furnished.

A long pillow or cushion, used to support the head of a person lying on a bed; -- generally laid under the pillows. And here I'll fling the pillow, there the bolster, This way the coverlet, another way the sheets. Shak.

A knitted foot cushion.

A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which recieves the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.

A kind of pad or cushion worn on the back below the waist, by women, to give fullness to the skirts; -- called also bishop, and tournure.

A pillow or cushion. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A pneumatic or hydraulic cushion for a falling weight, as in the valve gear of a steam engine, to prevent shock.

countries, the state reception room in places, and in the houses of the richer citizens. Cushions on the floor or on benches are ranged round the room.

m care or labor; furnishing comfort; commodious; as, easy circumstances; an easy chair or cushion.