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That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.

Cotton, or any soft, fibrous material, used as stuffing for garments; stuffing; padding. [Obs.] How now, my sweet creature of bombast! Shak. Doublets, stuffed with four, five, or six pounds of bombast at least. Stubbes.

stovepipe at the place where it enters a wall. The flanges of a piston and the gland of a stuffing box are sometimes called collars.

The stuffing of fowls, pigs, etc.; forcemeat.

A kind of stuffing for upholstered furniture, mattresses, etc., in which curled shreds of wood are substituted for curled hair.

Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

Stuffing; forcemeat. [Obs.] They spoil a good dish with . . . unsavory farcements. Feltham.

Stuffing; forcemeat.

sing. or pl.), old rags, etc., reduced to a degree of fineness by machinery, and used for stuffing unpholstered furniture.

A gland. See Illust. of Stuffing box.

Meat chopped fine and highly seasoned, either served up alone, or used as a stuffing. [Written also forced meat.]

The movable part of a stuffing box by which the packing is compressed; -- sometimes called a follower. See Illust. of Stuffing box, under Stuffing.

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

The act of stuffing or filling; an overloading and obstruction of any organ or vessel of the body; constipation.

A kind of cage inserted in a stuffing box and surrounding a piston rod, to separate the packing into two parts and form a chamber between for the reception of steam, etc. ; -- called also lantern brass.

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.

ing. Pudding grass (Bot.), the true pennyroyal (Mentha Pulegium), formerly used to flavor stuffing for roast meat. Dr. Prior. -- Pudding pie, a pudding with meat baked in it. Taylor (1630). -- Pudding pipe (Bot.), the long, cylindrical pod of the leguminous tree Cassia Fistula. The seeds are separately imbedded in a…

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