Word Meanings - PADUASOY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A rich and heavy silk stuff.

STUFFING
Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing. 3. A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather. Stuffing box, a device for rendering a joint
HEAVY-HEADED
Dull; stupid. "Gross heavy-headed fellows." Beau. & Fl.
STUFFINESS
The quality of being stuffy.
STUFFER
One who, or that which, stuffs.
HEAVY-ARMED
Wearing heavy or complete armor; carrying heavy arms.
STUFFY
1. Stout; mettlesome; resolute. Jamieson. 2. Angry and obstinate; sulky. 3. Ill-ventilated; close.
HEAVY
Having the heaves.
STUFF
A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication. Ham. Nav. Encyc. 8. Paper stock ground ready for use. Note: When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight. Clear stuff. See
HEAVY SPAR
Native barium sulphate or barite, -- so called because of its high specific gravity as compared with other non-metallic minerals.
HEAVY-HADED
Clumsy; awkward.
TOP-HEAVY
Having the top or upper part too heavy for the lower part. Sir H. Wotton.
BREADSTUFF
Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
OVERHEAVY
Excessively heavy.
DYESTUFF
A material used for dyeing.
SPLIT STUFF
Timber sawn into lengths and then split.