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noun

Cushion n.

1.

A case or bag stuffed with some 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."

2.

Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use; as:

(a)

A pad on which gilders cut gold leaf;

(b)

A mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston;

(c)

The elastic edge of a billiard table.

3.

A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; called also cushion dance.

Cushion capital.(Arch.)

(a)

A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature.

(b)

A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces.

Cushion star (Zool.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; so called from its form.

verb

Cushion v. t. (past & past part. cushioned; pres. part. cushioning)

1.

To seat or place on, or as on a cushion. "Many who are cushioned on thrones would have remained in obscurity."

2.

To furnish with cushions; as, to cushion a chaise.

3.

To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.

Cushioned hammer, a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.

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Etymology of 'Cushion'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Cushion" Quotes from Famous Books

... second-hand. Books (their outsides) were a hobby with Mervyn. Smoking in this den seemed as natural as breathing, and rather easier, though its owner never touched tobacco. On the Chesterfield sofa there was one jarring note. It was a new, perfectly clean satin cushion, of a brilliant salmon-pink, covered with embroidered muslin. Evidently it was that well-known womanly touch that has such a fatal effect in the rooms ...

— The Twelfth Hour • Ada Leverson

... distinctive feature, as in all the orders, is the capital (Figs. 68, 69), which is recognised at a glance by the two remarkable ornaments already alluded to as like scrolls, and known as volutes. These generally formed the faces of a pair of cushion-shaped features, which could be seen in a side view of the capital; but sometimes volutes stand in a diagonal position, and in almost every building they differ slightly. The abacus is less deep than in the Greek Doric, and it is always moulded at the edge, which was never the ...

— Architecture - Classic and Early Christian • Thomas Roger Smith

... would seat himself in a favourite niche of the rocks on Moel Gest, hidden by a stunted growth of the whitty, or mountain-ash, from general observation, with a rich-tinted cushion of stone-crop for his feet, and a straight precipice of rock rising just above. Here would he sit for hours, gazing idly at the bay below with its back-ground of purple hills, and the little fishing-sail ...

— The Doom of the Griffiths • Elizabeth Gaskell

... Norah, I remember, sat close together on the long seat under the elm tree. Jevons was on the other side of Viola. I sat on a cushion at her feet. ...

— The Belfry • May Sinclair

... girls landed, too. At least, if they didn't dive headfirst into the drift, they were pretty well swallowed up in it. And it was providential that they all did find such a soft cushion ...

— Ruth Fielding at Snow Camp • Alice Emerson

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