…a bag of cloth stuffed with a mass of soft material, used as a comfortable support for sitting or leaning on…
…a small shallow-water starfish with a broad body and very short blunt arms…
…a capital resembling a cushion pressed down by a weight, seen particularly in Romanesque churches…
…a small cushion designed to be placed randomly so as to create a casual effect and to be moved as required…
…a rubber cushion that makes a sound like the breaking of wind when someone sits on it…
…make it easier to cope with a difficult change or upsetting news…
…an Australian scale insect with a large fluted cottony egg sac, infesting citrus trees. It threatened to destroy the Californian citrus industry until it was controlled by the introduction of the Australian vedalia beetle…
…a type of billiards in which the cue ball must strike one object ball and three or more cushions before the second object ball…
…an extra seat or cushion placed on an existing seat for a small child to sit on…
…used in names of starfishes and similar echinoderms with five or more radiating arms, e.g. cushion star, brittlestar…
