stuffing

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Padding put in cushions and upholstered furniture.
• noun Food put into the cavity of a piece of meat or a vegetable that has been hollowed out.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The material used for filling a cushion, a mattress, a horse-collar, the skin of a bird or other animal, etc.
• noun In cookery, seasoned or flavored material, such as bread-crumbs, chestnuts, mashed potatoes, or oysters, used for filling the body of a fowl, or the hollow from which a bone has been taken in a joint of meat, before cooking, to keep the whole in shape, and to impart flavor.
• noun The art or operation of filling and mounting the skin of an animal; taxidermy.
• noun A filling of indifferent or superfluous material for the sake of extension, as in a book; padding.
• noun A mixture of fish-oil and tallow rubbed into leather to soften it and render it supple and water-proof.
• noun The wooden wedges or folds of paper used to wedge the plates of a comb-cutter's saw into the two grooves in the stock
• noun In textile-coloring, the process of applying a mordant dyestuff to textile material that has not been previously mordanted. The color lake is subsequently formed, and fixed by an after-treatment or saddening with some mordanted principle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun That which is used for filling anything.
• noun (Cookery) Any seasoning preparation used to stuff meat; especially, a composition of bread, condiments, spices, etc.; forcemeat; dressing.
• noun A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
• noun a device for rendering a joint impervious where there is a hole through which a movable cylindrical body, as the paston rod of a steam engine, or the plunger of a pump, slides back and forth, or in which a shaft turns. It usually consists of a box or chamber, made by an enlargement of part of the hole, forming a space around the rod or shaft for containing packing which is compressed and made to fill the space closely by means of a sleeve, called the gland, which fits loosely around the rod, and is pressed upon the packing by bolts or other means.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• verb Present participle of stuff.
• noun The matter used to stuff flexible hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
• noun Any of many food items used to stuff another.
• noun A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
• noun Internet The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables
• noun padding put in mattresses and cushions and upholstered furniture