When partly ground, called half stuff. Knight.
Clear stuff. See under Clear. -- Small stuff (Naut.), all kinds of
small cordage. Ham. Nav. Encyc. -- Stuff gown, the distinctive garb of
a junior barrister; hence, a junior barrister himself. See Silk gown,
under Silk.
Stuff, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Stuffed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Stuffing.] [OE.
stoffen; cf. OF. estoffer, F. étoffer, to put stuff in, to stuff, to
line, also, OF. estouffer to stifle, F. étouffer; both perhaps of
Teutonic origin, and akin to E. stop. Cf. Stop, v. t., Stuff, n.] 1. To
fill by crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to
excess; as, to stuff a bedtick.
Sometimes this crook drew hazel bought adown, And stuffed her apron
wide with nuts so brown.
Gay.
Lest the gods, for sin, Should with a swelling dropsy stuff thy
skin.
Dryden.