cushion dance

An old-fashioned dance of a rather free character, sed chiefly, it would appear, at weddings. In it each woman selected her partner by placing a cushion before him. But by some it is considered to be a corruption of cu ing - dance - ki ing dance. "I have, ere now, deserved a cushion: call for the cushion- dance ." Heywood. Woman Killed with Pa ion (1600). ( Nares .) IMG:content-1632.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To furnish or fit with cushions. 2. To seat or place on cushions. "Many, who are cushioned upon thrones, would have remained in obscurity."-Bolingbroke: On Parties. 3. To cover or conceal, as with a cushion. *II. Fig .: To put aside, to suppre . "Desiring to cushion his son's oratory."- Savage: R. Medlicott, bk. ii., ch. x. B. Billiards: To place or leave a ball close up to the cushion. cush'-ioned, pa. par. or a. [CUSHION, V.] 1. Ord. Lang.: (See the verb.) †2. Bot .: Flattened or somewhat convex; pulvi nate. 3. Billiards : Used of a player when his ball is left resting against the cushion; also of a ball so placed. *cush'-ion-ět, *coshionet, *cushonet, s. [Eng. cushion; dim in. suff. -et .] 1. A little cushion. "Upon these pretty cushionets did lie Ten you sand beauties, 2. A casket. Reaumont: Psyche, vi. 200. she had afterward put the latter letter in her bosome, and the first in her coshionet, Familiar Letters (1650). ."- Howell : cush'-ion-Ing, pr. par., a. & s. [CUSHION, V.] A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As substantive: Of steam: The gradual stoppage of the piston in a steam-engine by the resistance of a small quantity of stear a left in the cylinder. , pit, sire, sir, marine; gō, pět Syrian. æ, ce = 6; ey = a. qu = cushiony