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noun

Stuffing 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.

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.

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... metallic clash of steel was about it, and the rain descended in torrents upon the level prairies. At about three o'clock in the morning the storm seemed to lull a little. My companion crept out from underneath the cart; I followed. The plug, who had managed to improve the occasion by stuffing himself with grass, was soon in the shafts again, and just as dawn began to streak the dense low-lying clouds towards the east we were once more in motion. Still for a couple of hours more the rain came down in drenching torrents and ...

— The Great Lone Land - A Narrative of Travel and Adventure in the North-West of America • W. F. Butler

... coat of fat provided the anamal be in good order; the operator sceizes the recepticle I say, and tying it fast at one end turns it inwards and begins now with repeated evolutions of the hand and arm, and a brisk motion of the finger and thumb to put in what he says is bon pour manger; thus by stuffing and compressing he soon distends the recepticle to the utmost limmits of it's power of expansion, and in the course of it's longtudinal progress it drives from the other end of the recepticle a much larger portion of the than was prevously discharged by the finger and thumb of the ...

— The Journals of Lewis and Clark • Meriwether Lewis et al

... in finishing, by fitting the last block or keystone very nicely in the centre, dropping it into its place from the outside, though it is still done by the man within. The people outside are in the mean time occupied in throwing up snow with the pooalleray or snow shovel, and in stuffing in little wedges of snow where holes have ...

— Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the • Sir William Edward Parry

... his version, has avoided the translation of re vel mente observaverit, and gives us only "by his observation of the order of nature." In making this the opening of an excellent sermon, he has imitated the theologians, who often employ the whole time of the discourse in stuffing matter into the text, instead of drawing matter out of it. By observation he (Herschel) means the whole course of discovery, observation, hypothesis, deduction, comparison, etc. The type of the Baconian philosopher as it ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... Tomato marmalade Tomato sweet marmalade Tomato soy Pepper vinegar Mushroom catsup Tarragon or astragon vinegar Curry powder To pickle cucumbers Oil mangos To make the stuffing for forty melons To make yellow pickle To make green pickles To prepare vinegar for green or yellow pickle To pickle onions To pickle nastertiums To pickle radish pods To pickle English walnuts To pickle peppers To make walnut catsup To pickle green nectarines, or apricots To pickle asparagus Observations ...

— The Virginia Housewife • Mary Randolph

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