For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much. Ex. xxxvi. 7.

Ambitions should be made of sterner stuff. Shak.

The workman on his stuff his skill doth show,
And yet the stuff gives not the man his skill. Sir J. Davies.

Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
To do no contrived murder. Shak.

What stuff wilt have a kirtle of? Shak.

It [the arras] was of stuff and silk mixed, though, superior kinds were of silk exclusively. F. G. Lee.

He took away locks, and gave away the king's stuff. Hayward.

Anger would indite
Such woeful stuff as I or Shadwell write. Dryden.

* 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.

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.

Put roses into a glass with a narrow mouth, stuffing them close together . . . and they retain smell and color. Bacon.

With inward arms the dire machine they load,
And iron bowels stuff the dark abode. Dryden.

I'm stuffed, cousin; I can not smell. Shak.

An Eastern king put a judge to death for an iniquitous sentence, and ordered his hide to be stuffed into a cushion, and placed upon the tribunal. Swift.

Taught harmless man to cram and stuff. Swift.