Crossword clues for stuffing
stuffing
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stuffing \Stuff"ing\, n.
That which is used for filling anything; as, the stuffing of a saddle or cushion.
(Cookery) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
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A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.
Stuff \Stuff\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed; p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE. stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. ['e]toffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. ['e]touffer; both perhaps of Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.]
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To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.
--Gay.Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
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To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color.
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To fill by being pressed or packed into.
With inward arms the dire machine they load, And iron bowels stuff the dark abode.
--Dryden. (Cookery) To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
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To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell.
--Shak. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
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To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
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. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box). [U. S.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, "material used for filling a cushion;" 1530s, "seasoned mixture used to stuff fowls before cooking," verbal noun from stuff (v.) in the sense "fill the inside of a bird before cooking" (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles. 2 Any of many food items used to stuff another. 3 A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. 4 (context internet English) The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking. 5 (cx US finance legal English) A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability. vb. (present participle of stuff English)
WordNet
n. a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables [syn: dressing]
padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture
Wikipedia
Stuffing, filling, or dressing is an edible substance or mixture, often a starch, used to fill a cavity in another food item while cooking. Many foods may be stuffed, including eggs, poultry, seafood, mammals, and vegetables.
Turkey stuffing often consists of dried bread, in the form of croutons, cubes or breadcrumbs, pork sausage meat, onion, celery, salt, pepper, and other spices and herbs such as summer savoury, sage, or a mixture like poultry seasoning. Giblets are often used. Popular additions in the United Kingdom include dried fruits and nuts (notably apricots and flaked almonds), and chestnuts.
Usage examples of "stuffing".
I burst breathlessly into the kitchen, where the laundress was calmly stuffing clothes into the machine.
The laundress was taking things out of the washing machine and stuffing them in the dryer.
Add enough mashed potatoes to make the required quantity of stuffing, and season with salt, pepper, minced parsley, and melted butter.
Make a stuffing of one cupful of bread-crumbs, one teaspoonful each of melted butter, Worcestershire sauce, tomato catsup, minced parsley, minced onion, minced olives or pickles, lemon-juice, salt, black pepper, and paprika to taste, and sufficient cold water to moisten.
Make a stuffing of one cupful of bread-crumbs, a tablespoonful of melted butter, and salt and pepper to season.
He gazed across the dump, not really seeing the coiled chain, the rusted bedsprings, the chairs with fluffs of stuffing spilling from the sides.
Slim was so flustered, he tucked his hands into his back pockets, then into his front pockets, finally stuffing them under his arms.
Later, there were monstrously huge rabbits hunched in the store, stuffing their mouths, loudly crunching everything, empty cans piled up all around them.
In all stuffing recipes they can be braised or baked whole, along with the bodies.
I came back here for some, and there she was, stuffing things in that ee-normous old shopping bag.
I closed the cookbook on a recipe for turkey stuffing made, so help me, of pine nuts and prunes.
Though the maids varied from year to year, the meal was always the same: canned cream of mushroom soup, turkey, stuffing, canned cranberry jelly, string beans, sweet potatoes topped with marshmallows, salad, Parker House rolls, a huge ice cream mold of a turkey, and chocolate leaves.
The turkey was always tough and stringy, the stuffing dry and mealy, the string beans underdone and a brilliant baking-soda green, the sweet potatoes too sweet and sticky with Karo.
I set the table in the dining room and started the stuffing for the turkey.
Make a stuffing of two cupfuls of bread-crumbs, one cupful of butter, two eggs well beaten, and enough cold water to make a smooth paste.