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- English Word Buff Definition The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
- English Word Buff Definition A military coat, made of buff leather.
- English Word Buff Definition The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
- English Word Buff Definition A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
- English Word Buff Definition The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
- English Word Buff Definition Made of buff leather.
- English Word Buff Definition Of the color of buff.
- English Word Buff Definition To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
- English Word Buff Definition To strike.
- English Word Buff Definition A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
- English Word Buff Definition Firm; sturdy.
- English Word Buffa Definition The comic actress in an opera.
- English Word Buffa Definition Comic, farcical.
- English Word Buffalo Definition A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.
- English Word Buffalo Definition A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
- English Word Buffalo Definition Any species of wild ox.
- English Word Buffalo Definition The bison of North America.
- English Word Buffalo Definition A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
- English Word Buffalo Definition The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
- English Word Buffaloes Definition of Buffalo
- English Word Buffel duck Definition A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.
- English Word Buffer Definition An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
- English Word Buffer Definition A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.
- English Word Buffer Definition One who polishes with a buff.
- English Word Buffer Definition A wheel for buffing; a buff.
- English Word Buffer Definition A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.
- English Word Bufferhead Definition The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
- English Word Buffet Definition A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
- English Word Buffet Definition A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
- English Word Buffet Definition A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.