noun
A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
“There the cause of death was soon ascertained ; the victim of this daring outrage had been stabbed to death from ear to ear with a long, sharp instrument, in shape like an antique stiletto, which […] was subsequently found under the cushions of the hansom.[…]”
There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.
A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
A soft mass of material stuffed into a cloth bag, used for comfort or support.
Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
Something acting as a cushion, especially to absorb a shock or impact.
verb
To furnish with cushions.
to cushion a sofa
To seat or place on, or as on a cushion.
How many doughty monarchs, in later and more polite ages, would have slept in cottages, and have worked in falls, instead of inhabiting palaces, and being cushioned up in thrones, if this rule of government had continued in force ?
To absorb or deaden the impact of.
to cushion a blow
[…]the development of popular interest in Parliament made it less possible for the Privy Council in Dublin to cushion a bill which the Commons had presented to the Lord Lieutenant[…]
To conceal or cover up, as under a cushion.