stuffing

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Padding put in cushions and upholstered furniture.
2. n. Food put into the cavity of a piece of meat or a vegetable that has been hollowed out.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The material used for filling a cushion, a mattress, a horse-collar, the skin of a bird or other animal, etc.
2. n. In cookery, seasoned or flavored material, such as bread-crumbs, chestnuts, mashed potatoes, or oysters, used for filling the body of a fowl, or the hollow from which a bone has been taken in a joint of meat, before cooking, to keep the whole in shape, and to impart flavor.
3. n. The art or operation of filling and mounting the skin of an animal; taxidermy. Two main methods of stuffing are distinguished as soft and hard. In the former the skin is wired, or otherwise fixed on an internal framework, and cotton or tow is introduced, bit by-bit, till the desired form is secured. In the latter a solid mass of tow, shaped like the animal, is introduced within the skin, which is then molded upon this artificial body. Hard stuffing is usually practised upon birds.
4. n. A filling of indifferent or superfluous material for the sake of extension, as in a book; padding.
5. n. A mixture of fish-oil and tallow rubbed into leather to soften it and render it supple and water-proof.
6. n. The wooden wedges or folds of paper used to wedge the plates of a comb-cutter's saw into the two grooves in the stock
7. n. In textile-coloring, the process of applying a mordant dyestuff to textile material that has not been previously mordanted. The color lake is subsequently formed, and fixed by an after-treatment or saddening with some mordanted principle.

Wiktionary

1. v. present participle of stuff.
2. n. The matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
3. n. Any of many food items used to stuff another.
4. n. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
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GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. That which is used for filling anything.
2. n. (Cookery) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
3. n. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
2. n. padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture