buff

buff has 20 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
• n.. A military coat, made of buff leather.
• n.. The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
• a.. A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
• a.. The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
• a.. Made of buff leather.
• a.. Of the color of buff.
• v. t.. To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
• v. t.. To strike.
• n.. A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
• a.. Firm; sturdy.