Many who are cushioned on thrones would have
remained in obscurity. --Bolingbroke.
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}.
Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise.
--Dryden.
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}. --Halliwell.
{Cushion capital}.(Arch.) 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} (Zo["o]l.) a pentagonal starfish belonging to
{Goniaster}, {Astrogonium}, and other allied genera; -- so
called from its form.