More cushions were revealedbut that was not all.

Such cushion to resign: "Possession is nine points," but his Seemed more than ninety nine.

Beyond this is a raised floor covered with matting, and along the farther end a divan, whose piled cushions are the most tempting trap ever set to catch a lazy man.

My cushions are pearly gossamers frail, My mast is a tapering reed, My rudder a blush-rose petal pale, My ballast of wild-flower seed.

Q. What is "cushion?" A. Cushion is steam retained or admitted in front of the piston head at the finish of stroke, or when the engine is on "center.

The cushions or "quysshens" for the chairs, of embroidered velvet, were also very important appendages to the otherwise hard oaken and ebony seats, and as the actual date of the will of Alderman Glasseor quoted below is 1589, we may gather from the extract given, something of the character and value of these ornamental accessories which would probably have been in use for some five and twenty or thirty years previously.