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stuffage
[f. stuff n.1 and v.1 + -age.]
1. The act of stuffing or filling full; concr. the material with which a receptacle is stuffed.
1659H. More Immort. Soul ii. ii. (1713) 64 Upon any jog this Box receives, supposing all the stuffage thereof has Sense, it is evident, that the several things therein must be differently affected. 1685― Cursory Refl. on Baxter 5 Which is such an impertinent Stuffage of the Mind, that the Understanding is not thereby perfected, but burdened. 1690Norris Refl. Cond. Hum. Life (1691) 51 It must needs be a very unedifying Stuffage of Mind. 1943Aeronautics Jan. 34/1 An aeroplane should be stripped for action and not a stuffage of gadgets. 1963C. Roberts Buried Books 13 The discarded papyrus MS used as stuffage for the binding cannot conceivably be later.
†2. Path. Obstructed condition, stoppage. Obs.
1761Phil. Trans. LII. 264 Inflammatory fever, attended with..swelling and soreness, and stuffage of the nose. |