SG Heritage Dictionary

Padding [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The act or process of making a pad or of inserting stuffing.

2. The material with which anything is padded.

3. Material of inferior value, serving to extend a book, essay, etc.

4. The uniform impregnation of cloth with a mordant.

Padding [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Lining Roget’s Thesaurus §224

N. lining, inner coating, coating, # stalactite, stalagmite, filling, stuffing, wadding, padding, wainscot, parietes, wall

V. line, stuff, incrust, wad, pad, fill

Adj. lined

Stopper Roget’s Thesaurus §263

N. stopper, stopple, plug, cork, bung, spike, spill, # stopcock, tap, rammer, ram, ramrod, piston, stop-gap, wadding, stuffing, padding, stopping, dossil, pledget, tompion, tourniquet, cover, valve, vent peg, spigot, slide valve, janitor, doorkeeper, porter, warder, beadle, cerberus, ostiary, 1, motion in general

Softness Roget’s Thesaurus §324

V. render -soft, soften, mollify, mellow, relax, temper, mash, knead, squash, bend, yield, relent, relax, give, plasticize'