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.
The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
A visage rough,
Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.
A military coat, made of buff leather.
The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a. (Med.)
A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc. (Mech.)
The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.]
To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.
Buff
a.
Made of buff leather.
Of the color of buff.
Phrases & Compounds
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.
Buff stick
a strip of wood covered with buff leather, used in polishing.
Buff
v. t.
to polish with a soft cloth, especially one similar to a buff{5}. See Buff, n., 5.
Buff
v. t.
To strike. [Obs.]
Buff
n.
A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase “Blindman's buff.” See blindman's buff.
Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent
That made him reel.
Buff
a.
Firm; sturdy.
And for the good old cause stood buff,
'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff.