قاموس اللغة الإنجليزية

To strike.

A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."

Firm; sturdy.

The comic actress in an opera.

Comic, farcical.

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.

A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.

Any species of wild ox.

The bison of North America.

A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.

of Buffalo

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.

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.

A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; -- sometimes called buffing apparatus.

One who polishes with a buff.

A wheel for buffing; a buff.

A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; -- usually said of an elderly man.

The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

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.