Cushion /(k??sh"?n)/

Cush·ion

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
  3. A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.

Phrases & Compounds
Cushion capital
A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature.
Cushion star
a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.

Cushion

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Cushioned; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.

Phrases & Compounds
Cushioned hammer
a dead-stroke hammer. See under Dead-stroke.