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