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Cushion   /kˈʊʃən/   Listen
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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"Cushion" Quotes from Famous Books



... the forces that surround him, and fully half of these react wrongly. The object of education for that mind should be the teaching itself how to react with vigor and economy. No doubt the world at large will always lag so far behind the active mind as to make a soft cushion of inertia to drop upon, as it did for Henry Adams; but education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, ...
— The Education of Henry Adams • Henry Adams
... was my boat, safely tied up, not a cushion or a cord missing. Gian Bellini? He may be a rogue as Pascale says—God knows! How can I tell—I am only a ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 6 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists • Elbert Hubbard
... that berth in Victoria Street as a cat settles into a cushion. I was warm, comfortable, well-paid, well-dressed and had all I wanted in reason. I lived at home and commuted to the city every day, travelling first class, living first class. I settled down. I was on the way to what my mother and father had in ...
— Aliens • William McFee
... had found herself mastered by an enthusiasm. The consciousness of it suddenly seized her and tilled her with a curious misgiving. She knelt down upon the floor of the balcony, and, leaning her forehead against the cushion of the balustrade, she tried to collect her thoughts, ...
— A Venetian June • Anna Fuller
... cushion for her, and prepares tea; she looks up at him softly, but as he finishes and turns to ...
— Forsyte Saga • John Galsworthy


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