Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cushion"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cushion \Cush"ion\ (k??sh"?n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cushioned}
(-?nd); p. pr. & vb. {Cushioning}.]
1. To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.

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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Cushion \Cush"ion\ (k??sh"?n), n. [OE. cuischun, quisshen, OF.
coissin, cuissin, F. coussin, fr. (assumed) LL. culcitinum,
dim. of L. culcita cushion, mattress, pillow. See {Quilt},
and cf. {Counterpoint} a {coverlet}.]
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.
--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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

cushion
n 1: a mechanical damper; absorbs energy of sudden impulses [syn:
{shock absorber}, {shock}]
2: a soft bag filled with air or a mass of padding such as
feathers or foam rubber etc.
v : protect from impact; "cushion the blow" [syn: {buffer}, {soften}]


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