Word Meanings - CUSHIONET - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A little cushion.
Related words: (words related to CUSHIONET)
- LITTLENESS
The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc. Syn. -- Smallness; slightness; inconsiderableness; narrowness; insignificance; meanness; penuriousness. - CUSHIONLESS
Hot furnished with a cushion. Rows of long, cushionless benches, supplying the place of pews. Hawthorne. - LITTLE-EASE
An old slang name for the pillory, stocks, etc., of a prison. Latimer. - CUSHION TIRE
A thick solid-rubber tire, as for a bicycle, with a hollow groove running lengthwise on the inside. - CUSHIONET
A little cushion. - CUSHION
cuissin, F. coussin, fr. LL. culcitinum, dim. of L. culcita cushion, mattress, pillow. See Quilt, and cf. Counterpoint a 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 - CUSHIONY
Like a cushion; soft; pliable. A flat and cushiony noce. Dickens. - LITTLE
place being supplied by less, or, rarely, lesser. See Lesser. For the superlative least is used, the regular form, littlest, occurring very rarely, except in some of the English provinces, and occasionally in colloquial language. " Where love is - DO-LITTLE
One who performs little though professing much. Great talkers are commonly dolittles. Bp. Richardson. - CORONARY CUSHION
A cushionlike band of vascular tissue at the upper border of the wall of the hoof of the horse and allied animals. It takes an important part in the secretion of the horny walls. - PINCUSHION
A small cushion, in which pins may be stuck for use. - LADY'S CUSHION
An herb growing in dense tufts; the thrift . - SEA PINCUSHION
A sea purse. A pentagonal starfish. - BELITTLE
To make little or less in a moral sense; to speak of in a depreciatory or contemptuous way. T. Jefferson.