meaning of stuff
1. Material which is to be worked up in any process of manufacture.
2. The fundamental material of which anything is made up; elemental part; essence.
3. Woven material not made into garments; fabric of any kind; specifically, any one of various fabrics of wool or worsted; sometimes, worsted fiber.
4. Furniture; goods; domestic vessels or utensils.
5. A medicine or mixture; a potion.
6. Refuse or worthless matter; hence, also, foolish or irrational language; nonsense; trash.
7. A melted mass of turpentine, tallow, etc. , with which the masts, sides, and bottom of a ship are smeared for lubrication.
8. Paper stock ground ready for use.
9. To fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
10. To thrust or crowd; to press; to pack.
11. To fill by being pressed or packed into.
12. To fill with a seasoning composition of bread, meat, condiments, etc. ; as, to stuff a turkey.
13. To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
14. To fill the skin of, for the purpose of preserving as a specimen; -- said of birds or other animals.
15. To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
16. To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
17. To put fraudulent votes into (a ballot box).
18. To feed gluttonously; to cram.
19. miscellaneous unspecified objects; "the trunk was full of
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