Hypertext Webster Gateway: "cushioned"
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 WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
cushioned
adj : softened by the addition of cushions or padding [syn: {cushiony},
{padded}]
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