Emily Dickinson Lexicon

STUFF, v.t.

1. To fill; as, to stuff a bedtick.
2. To fill very full; to crowd. This crook drew hazel boughs adown, / And stuff'd her apron wide with nuts so brown. – Gay.
3. To thrust in; to crowd; to press. Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, ending them close together. – Bacon.
4. To fill by being put into any thing. With inward arms the dire machine they load, / And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. – Dryden.
5. To swell or cause to bulge out by putting something in. Stuff me out with straw. – Shak.
6. To fill with something improper. For thee I dim these eyes, and stuff this head / With all such reading as was never read. – Pope.
7. To obstruct, as any of the organs. / I'm stuff'd, cousin; I can not smell. – Shak.
8. To fill meat with seasoning; as, to stuff a leg of veal.
9. To fill the akin of a dead animal for presenting and preserving his form; as, to stuff a bird or a lion's skin.
10. To form by filling. 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.