buff

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

And for the good old cause stood buff, 'Gainst many a bitter kick and cuff. --Hudibras. [1913 Webster]

1.Made of buff leather. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]

2.Of the color of buff. [1913 Webster]

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. [1913 Webster]

1.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. [1913 Webster]

2.The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. [1913 Webster]

A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff.— Dryden.[1913 Webster]

3.A military coat, made of buff leather. --Shak. [1913 Webster]

4.(Med.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a. [1913 Webster]

5.(Mech.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc. [1913 Webster]

6.The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

To be in buff is equivalent to being naked.— Wright.[1913 Webster]

Nathless so sore a buff to him it lent That made him reel. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]

1.having striking color. Opposite of colorless.

Note: [Narrower terms: changeable, chatoyant, iridescent, shot; deep, rich; flaming; fluorescent, glowing; prismatic; psychedelic; red, ruddy, flushed, empurpled]

Syn: colourful. [WordNet 1.5]

2.striking in variety and interest. Opposite of colorless or dull. [Narrower terms: brave, fine, gay, glorious; flamboyant, resplendent, unrestrained; flashy, gaudy, jazzy, showy, snazzy, sporty; picturesque] [WordNet 1.5]

3.having color or a certain color; not black, white or grey; as, colored crepe paper. Opposite of colorless and monochrome.

Note: [Narrower terms: tinted; touched, tinged; amber, brownish-yellow, yellow-brown; amethyst; auburn, reddish-brown; aureate, gilded, gilt, gold, golden; azure, cerulean, sky-blue, bright blue; bicolor, bicolour, bicolored, bicoloured, bichrome; blue, bluish, light-blue, dark-blue; blushful, blush-colored, rosy; bottle-green; bronze, bronzy; brown, brownish, dark-brown; buff; canary, canary-yellow; caramel, caramel brown; carnation; chartreuse; chestnut; dun; earth-colored, earthlike; fuscous; green, greenish, light-green, dark-green; jade, jade-green; khaki; lavender, lilac; mauve; moss green, mosstone; motley, multicolor, culticolour, multicolored, multicoloured, painted, particolored, particoloured, piebald, pied, varicolored, varicoloured; mousy, mouse-colored; ocher, ochre; olive-brown; olive-drab; olive; orange, orangish; peacock-blue; pink, pinkish; purple, violet, purplish; red, blood-red, carmine, cerise, cherry, cherry-red, crimson, ruby, ruby-red, scarlet; red, reddish; rose, roseate; rose-red; rust, rusty, rust-colored; snuff, snuff-brown, snuff-color, snuff-colour, snuff-colored, snuff-coloured, mummy-brown, chukker-brown; sorrel, brownish-orange; stone, stone-gray; straw-color, straw-colored, straw-coloured; tan; tangerine; tawny; ultramarine; umber; vermilion, vermillion, cinibar, Chinese-red; yellow, yellowish; yellow-green; avocado; bay; beige; blae bluish-black or gray-blue); coral; creamy; cress green, cresson, watercress; hazel; honey, honey-colored; hued(postnominal); magenta; maroon; pea-green; russet; sage, sage-green; sea-green] [Also See: chromatic, colored, dark, light.]

Syn: colored, coloured, in color(predicate). [WordNet 1.5]