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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.

Comic, farcical. Aria buffa, a droll or comic air. -- Opera buffa, a comic opera. See Opera bouffe.

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

the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.

astic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.

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

t one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard. Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope.

One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.

; adversity. He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt.

A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns. [Obs.]

See Buffer, 1.

The buffalo. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.

Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.] So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton.

One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead Plautus (trans. 1694).

The comic actor in an opera.

Characteristic of, or like, a buffoon. "Buffoon stories." Macaulay. To divert the audience with buffoon postures and antic dances. Melmoth.

The arts and practices of a buffoon, as low jests, ridiculous pranks, vulgar tricks and postures. Nor that it will ever constitute a wit to conclude a tart piece of buffoonery with a "What makes you blush" Spectator.

Like a buffoon; consisting in low jests or gestures. Blair.

The practices of a buffoon; buffoonery.

Low; vulgar. [R.] Apish tricks and buffoonly discourse. Goodman.