stuffing

Padding put in cushions and upholstered furniture.

Food put into the cavity of a piece of meat or a vegetable that has been hollowed out.

The material used for filling a cushion, a mattress, a horse-collar, the skin of a bird or other animal, etc.

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.

The art or operation of filling and mounting the skin of an animal; taxidermy.

A filling of indifferent or superfluous material for the sake of extension, as in a book; padding.

A mixture of fish-oil and tallow rubbed into leather to soften it and render it supple and water-proof.

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

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.

That which is used for filling anything.