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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