- a soft bag of cloth, leather, or rubber, filled with feathers, air, foam rubber, etc., on which to sit, kneel, or lie.
- anything similar in form, used to dampen shocks or to prevent excessive pressure or chafing.
- something to absorb or counteract a shock, jar, or jolt, as a body of air or steam.
- something that lessens the effects of hardship, distress, or the like: His inheritance was a cushion against unemployment.
- any part or structure resembling a cushion.
- the resilient raised rim encircling the top of a billiard table.
- a pad worn under the hair by women.
- a portion of a radio or television script that can be adjusted in length or cut out altogether in order to end the program on time.
- the iced surface of a rink.
- a pillow used in lacemaking.
- a leather pad on which gold leaf is placed preparatory to gilding.
- to place on or support by a cushion.
- to furnish with a cushion or cushions.
- to cover or conceal with, or as if with, a cushion.
- to lessen or soften the effects of: to cushion the blow to his pride.
- to suppress (complaints, lamentations, etc.) by quietly ignoring.
- to check the motion of (a piston or the like) by a cushion, as of steam.
- to form (steam or the like) into a cushion.
- a bag made of cloth, leather, plastic, etc, filled with feathers, air, or other yielding substance, used for sitting on, leaning against, etc
- something resembling a cushion in function or appearance, esp one to support or pad or to absorb shock
- the resilient felt-covered rim of a billiard table
- another name for pillow (def. 2)
- short for air cushion
- a capital, used in Byzantine, Romanesque, and Norman architecture, in the form of a bowl with a square top
- to place on or as on a cushion
- to provide with cushions
- to lessen or suppress the effects of
- to protect, esp against hardship or change
- to check the motion of (a mechanism) gently, esp by the compression of trapped fluid in a cylinder
- to provide with a means of absorbing shock
