Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tomentum

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

TOMEN'TUM (κνέφαλλον). A flock of wool torn off in fulling cloth, and employed as wadding for stuffing cushions, bolsters, mattresses, &c.; whence the word came to designate the stuffing itself, even without reference to the materials of which it was composed, whether wool, feathers, straw, chopped sedge, or tow, all of which were employed. Plin. H. N. viii. 73. Mart. xiv. 159, 160, 161, 162. Senec. V. B. 25. Suet. Tib. 54.