STUFF, n.

7. Cloth; fabrics of the loom; as silk stuffs; woolen stuffs. In this sense the word has a plural. Stuff comprehends all cloths, but it signifies particularly woolen cloth of slight texture for linings.

8. Matter or thing; particularly, that which is trifling or worthless; a very extensive use of the word. Flattery is fulsome stuff; poor poetry is miserable stuff.

Anger would indite such woful stuff as I or Shadwell write.

9. Among seamen, a melted mass of turpentine, tallow, _c. With which the masts, sides and bottom of a ship are smeared.

, v.i. To feed gluttonously.

Taught harmless man to cram and stuff.