stuffagen.
1. The act of stuffing or filling full; concrete the material with which a receptacle is stuffed.
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > stuffing or cramming
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the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > [noun] > filling > stuffing or cramming > that which serves to
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1659 H. More Immortality of Soul ii. ii. 127 Upon any jog this Box receives, supposing all the stuffage thereof has Sense, it is evident that the severall things therein must be differently affected.
1685 H. More Cursory Refl. 5 Which is such an impertinent Stuffage of the Mind, that the Understanding is not thereby perfected, but burdened.
1690 J. Norris Refl. upon Conduct Human Life 49 It must needs be a very unedifying Stuffage of Mind.
1943 Aeronautics Jan. 34/1 An aeroplane should be stripped for action and not a stuffage of gadgets.
1963 C. Roberts Buried Books 13 The discarded papyrus MS used as stuffage for the binding cannot conceivably be later.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of internal organs > disorder of respiratory organs > [noun] > stuffiness or obstruction
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1762 Philos. Trans. 1761 (Royal Soc.) 52 264 Inflammatory fever, attended with..swelling and soreness, and stuffage of the nose.
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