Buff (a.) The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
Buff (a.) Made of buff leather.
Buff (a.) Of the color of buff.
Buff (v. t.) To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
Buff (v. t.) To strike.
Buff (n.) A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
Buff (a.) Firm; sturdy.
Buffa (n. fem.) The comic actress in an opera.
Buffa (a.) Comic, farcical.
Buffaloes (pl. ) of Buffalo
Buffalo (n.) 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.
Buffalo (n.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
Buffalo (n.) Any species of wild ox.
Buffalo (n.) The bison of North America.
Buffalo (n.) A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
Buffalo (n.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
Buffel duck () 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.
Buffer (n.) 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.
Buffer (n.) A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.
Buffer (n.) One who polishes with a buff.
Buffer (n.) A wheel for buffing; a buff.
Buffer (n.) A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.
Bufferhead (n.) The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.
Buffet (n.) 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.
Buffet (n.) A counter for refreshments; a restaurant at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
Buffet (v. i.) A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
Buffet (v. i.) A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
Buffet (v. i.) A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
Buffeted (imp. & p. p.) of Buffet
Buffeting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Buffet
Buffet (v. t.) To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
Buffet (v. t.) To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
Buffet (v. t.) To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Buffet (v. i.) To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
Buffet (v. i.) To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Buffeter (n.) One who buffets; a boxer.
Buffeting (n.) A striking with the hand.
Buffeting (n.) A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity.
Buffin (n.) A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.
Buffing apparatus () See Buffer, 1.
Buffle (n.) The buffalo.
Buffle (v. i.) To puzzle; to be at a loss.
Bufflehead (n.) One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow.
Bufflehead (n.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.
Buffle-headed (a.) Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering.
Buffo (n.masc.) The comic actor in an opera.
Buffoon (n.) A man who makes a practice of amusing others by low tricks, antic gestures, etc.; a droll; a mimic; a harlequin; a clown; a merry-andrew.
Buffoon (a.) Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon.
Buffoon (v. i.) To act the part of a buffoon.
Buffoon (v. t.) To treat with buffoonery.
Buffooneries (pl. ) of Buffoonery
Buffoonery (n.) The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures.
Buffoonish (a.) Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures.
Buffoonism (n.) The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.
Buffoonly (a.) Low; vulgar.
Buffy (a.) Resembling, or characterized by, buff.
Bufo (n.) A genus of Amphibia including various species of toads.
Bufonite (n.) An old name for a fossil consisting of the petrified teeth and palatal bones of fishes belonging to the family of Pycnodonts (thick teeth), whose remains occur in the oolite and chalk formations; toadstone; -- so named from a notion that it was originally formed in the head of a toad.
Bug (n.) A bugbear; anything which terrifies.
Bug (n.) A general name applied to various insects belonging to the Hemiptera; as, the squash bug; the chinch bug, etc.
Bug (n.) An insect of the genus Cimex, especially the bedbug (C. lectularius). See Bedbug.
Bug (n.) One of various species of Coleoptera; as, the ladybug; potato bug, etc.; loosely, any beetle.
Bug (n.) One of certain kinds of Crustacea; as, the sow bug; pill bug; bait bug; salve bug, etc.
Bugaboo (n.) Alt. of Bugbear
Bugbear (n.) Something frightful, as a specter; anything imaginary that causes needless fright; something used to excite needless fear; also, something really dangerous, used to frighten children, etc.
Bugbane (n.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species.
Bugbear (n.) Same as Bugaboo.
Bugbear (a.) Causing needless fright.
Bugbear (v. t.) To alarm with idle phantoms.
Bugfish (n.) The menhaden.
Bugger (n.) One guilty of buggery or unnatural vice; a sodomite.
Bugger (n.) A wretch; -- sometimes used humorously or in playful disparagement.
Buggery (n.) Unnatural sexual intercourse; sodomy.
Bugginess (a.) The state of being infested with bugs.
Buggy (a.) Infested or abounding with bugs.
Buggies (pl. ) of Buggy
Buggy (n.) A light one horse two-wheeled vehicle.
Buggy (n.) A light, four-wheeled vehicle, usually with one seat, and with or without a calash top.
Bugle (n.) A sort of wild ox; a buffalo.
Bugle (n.) A horn used by hunters.
Bugle (n.) A copper instrument of the horn quality of tone, shorter and more conical that the trumpet, sometimes keyed; formerly much used in military bands, very rarely in the orchestra; now superseded by the cornet; -- called also the Kent bugle.
Bugle (n.) An elongated glass bead, of various colors, though commonly black.
Bugle (a.) Jet black.
Bugle (n.) A plant of the genus Ajuga of the Mint family, a native of the Old World.
Bugled (a.) Ornamented with bugles.
Bugle horn () A bugle.
Bugle horn () A drinking vessel made of horn.
Bugler (n.) One who plays on a bugle.
Bugleweed (n.) A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.
Buglosses (pl. ) of Bugloss
Bugloss (n.) A plant of the genus Anchusa, and especially the A. officinalis, sometimes called alkanet; oxtongue.
Bugwort (n.) Bugbane.
Buhl (n.) Alt. of Buhlwork
Buhlwork (n.) Decorative woodwork in which tortoise shell, yellow metal, white metal, etc., are inlaid, forming scrolls, cartouches, etc.
Buhlbuhl (n.) See Bulbul.
Buhrstone (n.) A cellular, flinty rock, used for mill stones.
Built (imp. & p. p.) of Build
Building (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Build
Builded (imp. & p. p.) of Build
Build (v. t.) To erect or construct, as an edifice or fabric of any kind; to form by uniting materials into a regular structure; to fabricate; to make; to raise.