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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stuff \stuff\, n. of. estoffe, f. 'etoffe; of uncertain
   origin, perhaps of teutonic origin and akin to e. stop, v.t.
   cf. stuff, v. t.
   1. material which is to be worked up in any process of
      manufacture.
      1913 webster

            for the stuff they had was sufficient for all the
            work to make it, and too much.        --ex. xxxvi.
                                                  7.
      1913 webster

            ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. --shak.
      1913 webster

            the workman on his stuff his skill doth show,
            and yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. --sir
                                                  j. davies.
      1913 webster

   2. the fundamental material of which anything is made up;
      elemental part; essence.
      1913 webster

            yet do i hold it very stuff o' the conscience
            to do no contrived murder.            --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind;
      specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or
      worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
      1913 webster

            what stuff wilt have a kirtle of?     --shak.
      1913 webster

            it the arras was of stuff and silk mixed, though,
            superior kinds were of silk exclusively. --f. g.
                                                  lee.
      1913 webster

   4. furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
      1913 webster

            he took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff.
                                                  --hayward.
      1913 webster

   5. a medicine or mixture; a potion. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or
      irrational language; nonsense; trash.
      1913 webster

            anger would indite
            such woeful stuff as i or shadwell write. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   7. naut. a melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc., with
      which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared
      for lubrication.                            --ham. nav.
                                                  encyc.
      1913 webster

   8. paper stock ground ready for use.
      1913 webster

   note: when partly ground, called half stuff. --knight.
         1913 webster

   clear stuff. see under clear.

   small stuff naut., all kinds of small cordage. --ham.
      nav. encyc.

   stuff gown, the distinctive garb of a junior barrister;
      hence, a junior barrister himself. see silk gown, under
      silk.
      1913 webster
see also:
stuff clear stuff clear small stuff stuff gown silk gown 
silk 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stuff \stuff\, v. t. imp.  p. p. stuffed; p. pr.  vb. n.
   stuffing. oe. stoffen; cf. of. estoffer, f. 'etoffer,
   to put stuff in, to stuff, to line, also, of. estouffer to
   stifle, f. 'etouffer; both perhaps of teutonic origin, and
   akin to e. stop. cf. stop, v. t., stuff, n.
   1. to fill by crowding something into; to cram with
      something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
      1913 webster

            sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown,
            and stuffed her apron wide with nuts so brown.
                                                  --gay.
      1913 webster

            lest the gods, for sin,
            should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy skin.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
      1913 webster

            put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing
            them close together . . . and they retain smell and
            color.                                --bacon.
      1913 webster

   3. to fill by being pressed or packed into.
      1913 webster

            with inward arms the dire machine they load,
            and iron bowels stuff the dark abode. --dryden.
      1913 webster

   4. cookery to fill with a seasoning composition of bread,
      meat, condiments, etc.; as, to stuff a turkey.
      1913 webster

   5. to obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some
      obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
      1913 webster

            i'm stuffed, cousin; i can not smell. --shak.
      1913 webster

   6. to fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a
      specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
      1913 webster

   7. to form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
      1913 webster

            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.
      1913 webster

   8. to crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to
      crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
      1913 webster

   9. to put fraudulent votes into a ballot box. u. s.
      1913 webster
see also:
stuffed stuffing stop stuff 
[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
stuff \stuff\, v. i.
   to feed gluttonously; to cram.
   1913 webster

         taught harmless man to cram and stuff.   --swift.
   1913 webster

[4] : WordNet (r) 2.0
stuff
     n 1: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a
          physical object; "coal is a hard black material"; "wheat
          is the stuff they use to make bread" syn: material
     2: miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of
        stuff" syn: whatchamacallit, whatsis, sundry, sundries
     3: informal terms for personal possessions; "did you take all
        your clobber?" syn: clobber
     4: senseless talk; "don't give me that stuff" syn: stuff and
        nonsense, hooey, poppycock
     5: unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the
        stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a united
        states marine"
     6: information in some unspecified form; "it was stuff i had
        heard before"; "there's good stuff in that book"
     7: a critically important or characteristic component;
        "suspense is the very stuff of narrative"
     v 1: fill completely; "the child stuffed his pockets with candy"
     2: press or force; "stuff money into an envelope"; "she thrust
        the letter into his hand" syn: thrust, shove, squeeze
     3: obstruct; "my nose is all stuffed"; "her arteries are
        blocked" syn: lug, choke up, block ant: unstuff
     4: overeat or eat immodestly; make a pig of oneself; "she
        stuffed herself at the dinner"; "the kids binged on
        icecream" syn: gorge, ingurgitate, overindulge, glut,
         englut, engorge, overgorge, overeat, gormandize,
         gormandise, gourmandize, binge, pig out, satiate,
         scarf out
     5: treat with grease, fill, and prepare for mounting; "stuff a
        bearskin"
     6: fill tightly with a material; "stuff a pillow with
        feathers"; "the old lady wants to have her dead poodle
        stuffed by the taxidermist"
     7: fill with a stuffing while cooking; "have you stuffed the
        turkey yet?"
see also:
material whatchamacallit whatsis sundry sundries clobber 
stuff and nonsense hooey poppycock thrust shove 
squeeze lug choke up block unstuff 
gorge ingurgitate overindulge glut englut 
engorge overgorge overeat gormandize gormandise 
gourmandize binge pig out satiate scarf out 

[5] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
360 moby thesaurus words for "stuff":
   abilities, accessories, accomplishments, addictive drug, air,
   aliment, allay, anhydrate, atom, atomic particles, atoms, attitude,
   attributes, axiom, baggage, balderdash, baloney, bar, batten,
   being, belongings, bind, blast-freeze, block, block up, blockade,
   bolt, bolt down, bosh, bottom, breast-feed, brim, brine,
   brute matter, building block, bull, bullshit, bung, bunk, bunkum,
   candy, capabilities, caulk, ceil, center, charge, chattels,
   chemical element, chink, chock, choke, choke off, choke up,
   claptrap, clobber, clog, clog up, cloth, cloy, component, compress,
   congest, constipate, constituent, core, cork, corn, cover, cram,
   cram in, crap, creations, crowd, crowd in, cure, dam, dam up,
   dangerous drug, dehydrate, desiccate, devour, distillate,
   distillation, dope, dough, drapery, drench, drive in, drug, dry,
   dry-cure, dry-nurse, dry-salt, earth, effects, element,
   elementary particle, elementary unit, elixir, embalm, engorge,
   entity, equipment, essence, essential, essentiality, essentials,
   etoffe, evaporate, fabric, face, fatten, fatten up, feather, felt,
   fiddle-faddle, fill, fill to overflowing, fill up, fire,
   flapdoodle, flower, focus, force, force in, force-feed, foster,
   foul, freeze, freeze-dry, freight, fume, fundamental,
   fundamental particle, fundamentals, fur, furniture, garbage, gear,
   gist, glut, gluttonize, gobble, goods, gorge, gormandize, gravamen,
   grit, gulp, gulp down, guttle, guzzle, hard drug, hard stuff,
   heart, hogwash, hot air, humbug, hyle, hypostasis, impact,
   impedimenta, individual, ingredients, inlay, inner essence,
   interline, irradiate, jade, jam, jam in, jam-pack, jerk, junk,
   kernel, kipper, kit, knock in, lace, lactate, lade, line,
   live to eat, load, lumber, makings, malarkey, marinade, marinate,
   marrow, material, material resources, material world, materiality,
   materials, materiel, matter, meat, medium, molecule, monad,
   mummify, napery, natural world, nature, nonsense, nourish, nub,
   nucleus, nurse, nurture, nutrify, nuts and bolts, object,
   obstipate, obstruct, overburden, overcharge, overdose, overeat,
   overfeed, overfill, overgorge, overindulge, overlade, overload,
   oversaturate, overstuff, overweight, pack, pack in, pad, pall,
   pang, paraphernalia, pelf, personal, physical world, pickle,
   piffle, pith, plenum, plug, plug up, plunder, plunge in, poke in,
   poppycock, possessions, postulate, pound in, preservatize, press,
   press in, principle, property, push in, quick-freeze, quid,
   quiddity, quintessence, quintessential, rag, ram, ram in, raven,
   raw material, refrigerate, rhino, rocks, rot, rubbish, run in,
   salt, sap, sate, satiate, satisfy, saturate, scratch, season,
   shekels, shit, shove, silk, slake, smash, smoke, smoke-cure, soak,
   soul, spile, spirit, squash, squeeze, squeeze in, stanch, staple,
   stay, stench, stock, stop, stop up, stopper, stopple, store,
   stuff and nonsense, stuff in, stuff up, stumpy, substance,
   substances, substratum, suckle, sugar, sum and substance,
   supercharge, supersaturate, supply, surcharge, surfeit, swill,
   tackle, talents, tamp, tamp in, tangible, textile, textile fabric,
   texture, the four elements, the nitty-gritty, things, thrust,
   thrust in, tissu, tissue, top off, trappings, traps, trash, tricks,
   tripe, twaddle, unit of being, virtuality, wad, wainscot, water,
   weave, web, wedge in, weft, weight, wet-nurse, wolf, wolf down,
   woof, wool, works





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