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Buff

Buff (buff)
n.(b1913 webster dictionaryf)
Buff
[OE. buff, buffe, buff, buffalo, F. buffle buffalo. See Buffalo.]
  1. A sort of leather, prepared from the skin of the buffalo, dressed with oil, like chamois; also, the skins of oxen, elks, and other animals, dressed in like manner.
    "A suit of buff." Shak.
  2. The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.

    A visage rough,
    Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.
    Dryden.

  3. A military coat, made of buff leather.
    Shak.
  4. The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
  5. A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
  6. The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
    [Colloq.]

    To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.
    Wright.

Buff

Buff (buff)
a.
Buff
  1. Made of buff leather.
    Goldsmith.
  2. Of the color of buff.

    Buff coat, a close, military outer garment, with short sleeves, and laced tightly over the chest, made of buffalo skin, or other thick and elastic material, worn by soldiers in the 17th century as a defensive covering. -- Buff jerkin, originally, a leather waistcoat; afterward, one of cloth of a buff color. [Obs.] Nares. -- Buff stick (Mech.), a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.

Buff

Buff (buff)
v. t.
Buff
  1. To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.

Buff

Buff (buff)
v. t.
Buff
  1. To strike.
    [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Buff

Buff (buff)
n.
Buff
  1. A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."

    Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent
    That made him reel.
    Spenser.

Buff

Buff (buff)
a.
Buff
  1. Firm; sturdy.

    And for the good old cause stood buff,
    'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff.
    Hudibras.













Webster's Unabridged Dictionary: Library in Itself

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