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 Cush·ion n.
 1. A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.
    Two cushions stuffed with straw, the seat to raise.   --Dryden.
 2. Anything resembling a cushion in properties or use; as: (a) a pad on which gilders cut gold leaf; (b) a mass of steam in the end of the cylinder of a steam engine to receive the impact of the piston; (c) the elastic edge of a billiard table.
 3. A riotous kind of dance, formerly common at weddings; -- called also cushion dance.
 Cushion capital.Arch. A capital so sculptured as to appear like a cushion pressed down by the weight of its entablature. (b) A name given to a form of capital, much used in the Romanesque style, modeled like a bowl, the upper part of which is cut away on four sides, leaving vertical faces.
 Cushion star Zool. a pentagonal starfish belonging to Goniaster, Astrogonium, and other allied genera; -- so called from its form.