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A junior barrister; a stuff gown. ( Eng.) stuff, stuffe, v . t . & i. [O. Fr. est offer =to stuff; estouffer (Fr. étouffer )=to stifle, to choke; Sp. & Port . estofer ; Ger. stopfen .] [STUFF, 8.] A. Transitive : 1. To cram full; to fill by packing or crowding material into; to load or fill to exce ; to crowd. "I will stuf your purses full of crowns."- Shakesp .: Henry IV ., Pt . I. , i. 2. 2. To form or pack with material nece ary to complete; as, to stuff a cushion. 3. To fill with stuffing or seasoning. "Parsley to stuff a rabbit."- Shakesp .: Taming of the Shrew, iv. 4. 4. To cause to swell out. "Lest the gods, for sin, Should, with a swelling dropsy, stuff thy skin." Dryden: Persius, v. 273. 5. To form or fashion by stuffing. "An eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal."- Swift . 6. To fill the skin of a dead animal, for preserving and presenting the natural form; as, to stuff a bird. 7. To fill with food; to cram. "That there might be abundance at Paris, the people of Normandy and Anjou were stufing themselves with nettles."- Macaulay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xx. 8. To thrust, crowd, or pre in; to pack closely and firmly. "Put roses into a gla with a narrow mouth, stufing them close together, but without bruising, and they retain smell and color fresh a year." Bacon : Nat . Hist. 9. To fill by being pre ed or packed in. "With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. Dryden: Virgil's Eneid , ii. 26. 10. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; to crowd, cram, or fill with idle or false tales, fancies, or ideas. "For thee we dim the eyes, and stuff the head With all such reading as was never read." Pope: Dunciad , iv. 249. IMG:content-0455.png:[blocks in formation] C. As substantive: 1. The act of one who stuffs. 2. That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a cushion; filling for cushions and mattre es, consisting of cotton, flocking, hair, wool, cork, sponge, hay, straw, tow, flax, mo , curled shreds of wood, . 3. Seasoning for meat, .; that which is put into meat to give it a higher relish. II. Leather : A mixture of fish-oil and tallow, which is rubbed into leather after being shaved, previous to boarding or graining. stuffing-box, s. Machinery: 1. A box with an annular rece around a piston rod, and provided with a follower and bolts whereby the packing may be screwed down. 2. A sleeve adapted to pre a collar of hemp around a piston-rod; a gland. The stuffing-boxes in a locomotive engine are rece es for admitting some soft material, such as white spun-yarn, to render steam-tight any rod working through this stuffing or packing. The piston-rods, slide-valve rods, regulator-rods, and pump-plunger, all work through stuffing-boxes of this description. stuff-ỹ, a. [Eng.stuff; -y.] 1. Difficult to breathe in; close, musty. "Annoying in their degree are the individuals who insist upon keeping the railway carriage window shut on a stuffy day." -London Daily Telegraph . 2. Stout, mettlesome, resolute. ( Scotch.) 3. Angry, sulky, obstinate. *stüke, s . [STUCCO.] stull, subst. [Cf. Ger. stollen a stand, a support; Sw.stolla gallery.] Mining : Timber placed in the back of a level, and covered with boards or small poles, to support rubbish. "We had to stop the drill until le ees could get in their stults and lagging." -Money Market Review. *stulm, s . [Cf. Sw.stoll =a gallery.] A shaft to draw water out of a mine.