Obs. [f. STUFF sb.1 and v.1 + -AGE.]
1. The act of stuffing or filling full; concr. the material with which a receptacle is stuffed.
1659. H. More, Immort. Soul, II. ii. (1713), 64. Upon any jog this Box receives, supposing all the stuffage thereof has Sense, it is evident, that the several things therein must be differently affected. Ibid. (1685), Cursory Refl. on Baxter, 5. Which is such an impertinent Stuffage of the Mind, that the Understanding is not thereby perfected, but burdened.
1690. Norris, Refl. Cond. Hum. Life (1691), 51. It must needs be a very unedifying Stuffage of Mind.
2. Path. Obstructed condition, stoppage.
1761. Phil. Trans., LII. 264. Inflammatory fever, attended with … swelling and soreness, and stuffage of the nose.
