Word Finder - buff

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Undyed leather from the skin of buffalo or similar animals.

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A tool, often one covered with buff leather, used for polishing.

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A brownish yellow colour.

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A military coat made of buff leather.

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A person who is very interested in a particular subject; an enthusiast.

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An effect that makes a character or item stronger.

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I just picked up an epic damage buff! Let's go gank the other team!

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Compressive coupler force that occurs during a slack bunched condition.

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The bare skin.

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to strip to the buff

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The greyish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat.

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A substance used to dilute (street) drugs in order to increase profits.

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To polish and make shiny by rubbing.

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He was already buffing the car's hubs.

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To make a character or an item stronger.

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I noticed that the pistols were buffed in the update.

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To modify a medical chart, especially in a dishonest manner.

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Of the color of buff leather, a brownish yellow.

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Unusually muscular. (also buffed or buffed out)

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The bouncer was a big, buff dude with tattoos, a shaved head, and a serious scowl.

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Physically attractive.

He was muscular and buff beneath the trench.

In the short time since he left, she had forgotten how buff he was.

In colour Anopheles is usually brownish or slaty, but sometimes buff, and the thorax frequently has a dark stripe on each side.

Her eyes skimmed his perfect, buff body before the pain in her hand finally registered.

Randy, a science buff, was in the top third of the grad­uates and was also his class president.

In the second stage, implements of true bronze (9 to io% tin) become common; painted pottery of buff clay with dull black geometrical patterns appears alongside the red-ware; and foreign imports occur, such as Egyptian blue-glazed beads (XIIth-XIIIth Dynasty, 2500-2000 B.C.),1 and cylindrical Asiatic seals (one of Sargon I., 2000 B.C.).2 In the third stage, Aegean colonists introduced the Mycenaean (late Minoan) culture and industries; with new types of weapons, wheel-made pottery, and a naturalistic art which rapidly becomes conventional; gold and ivory are abundant, and glass and enamels are known.

Some of the best sandstone in the United States is obtained from Cuyahoga and Lorain counties; it is exceptionally pure in texture (about 97% being pure silica), durable and evenly coloured light buff, grey or blue grey.

Kopp contributed the general theoretical part, Kolbe the organic, and Buff and Zamminer the physico-chemical.

The most destructive is Botrytis cinerea which forms orangebrown or buff specks on the stems, pedicels, leaves and flower-buds, which increase in size and become covered with a delicate grey mould, completely destroying or disfiguring the parts attacked.

Its nest is a light construction of dry rushes, having its foundation in the water, and contains as many as six eggs, which are white tinged with buff.

The loess is reddish-brown, buff or grey according to the varying proportions of iron oxide.

Mankato has an extensive trade in dairy and agricultural products (especially grain), stone (a pinkish buff limestone is quarried in the vicinity), and forest products.

The corollas are obliquely funnel-shaped, of a dirty yellow or buff, marked with a close reticulation of purple veins.

The remains then change to buff colour, afterwards turning brown, when decomposition sets in, and as the bacilli present in the dead larvae increase and the nutrient matter is consumed, the mass in some cases becomes sticky and ropy in character, making its removal impossible by the bees.

The beams should be a dark stain to contrast sharply with a white or buff colored ceiling and walls.

If you're a history buff or you just like knowing from whom you're buying, keep on reading!

This destination is considered a must-see for any political history buff.

Sprengel, although the idea had been previously conceived by Magnus and Buff.

Buildings, &c. - Brick, blue limestone, and a greyish buff freestone are the most common building materials, and the city has various buildings of much architectural merit.

The groundcolour of the fur varies from a pale fawn to a rufous buff, graduating in the Indian race into pure white on the under-parts and inside of the limbs.

The bases of the ears behind are black, the tips buff.

The upper side of the tail is buff, spotted with broken rings like the back, its under surface white with simple spots.

They are then allowed to cool and mellow, are stripped and carefully dried in sun and air and remain dyed a rich tawny brown or buff colour.

From 2 to 3 tons of green are required to produce one ton white or buff.

It lays four or five eggs of a pale purplish buff, streaked and spotted with purplish red.

The town preserves associations of Goethe, who wrote Die Leiden des jungen Werthers after living here in 1772 as a legal official, and of Charlotte Buff, the Lotte of Werther.

His deep chestnut head and throat are diversified on either side by a line of buff, which, springing from the gape, runs upward to the eye, in front of which it forms a fork, one prong passing backward above and the other below, enclosing a dark glossy-green patch, and both losing themselves in the elongated feathers of the hind-head and nape.

In addition to the four Dawkins, there was Pumpkin Green, the grocery cart vagabond, and old Brandon Westlake, camera buff supreme.

On being cut or broken the flesh of a true mushroom remains white or nearly so, the flesh of the coarser horse mushroom changes to buff or sometimes to dark brown.

Oberlin is primarily an educational centre, the seat of Oberlin College, named in honour of Jean Frederic Oberlin, and open to both sexes; it embraces a college of arts and sciences, an academy, a Theological Seminary (Congregational), which has a Slavic department for the training of clergy for Slavic immigrants, and a conservatory of music. In 1909 it had twenty buildings, and a Memorial Arch of Indiana buff limestone, dedicated in 1903, in honour of Congregational missionaries, many of them Oberlin graduates, killed in China in 1900.

Its buff and blue cover was adopted from the colours of the Whig party whose political principles it advocated.

The sides of these ridges and pinnacles are bare of vegetation and display a variety of colours in buff, cream, pale green, grey and flesh.

White, pied and buff turkeys are also often seen, and if care be taken they are commonly found to " breed true."

The variegated plumage of the Snipe is subject to no inconsiderable variation, especially in the extent of dark markings on the belly, flanks, and axillaries, while examples are occasionally seen in which no trace of white, and hardly any of buff or grey, is visible, the place of these tints being taken by several shades of chocolate-brown.

Other examples in which buff or rust-colour predominates have also been deemed distinct, and to those has been applied the epithet russata.

The young when freshly hatched are beautifully clothed in down of a dark maroon, variegated with black, white and buff.

Its plumage for the most part is of a pale buff colour, rayed and speckled with black and reddish brown.

Buff carried out an inquiry on the compounds of silicon in which they prepared the previously unknown gas, silicon hydride or silicuretted hydrogen.

Subsequently the hard top hairs are taken out as in the case of otters and beavers and the whole thoroughly cleaned in the revolving drums. The close underwool, which is of a slightly wavy nature and mostly of a pale drab colour, is then dyed by repeated applications of a rich dark brown colour, one coat after another, each being allowed to thoroughly dry before the next is put on, till the effect is almost a lustrous black on the top. The whole is again put through the cleaning process and evenly reduced in thickness by revolving emery wheels, and eventually finished off in the palest buff colour.

The coat is long and soft, pale silvery grey or light buff in hue, marked with black on the chest and upper parts of the limbs, with transverse stripes on the loins and rings on the tail of the same hue.

Being of a bold disposition, and the trees favouring its mode of life often growing near houses, it will become on slight encouragement familiar with men; and its neat attire of ash-grey and warm buff, together with its sprightly gestures, render it an attractive visitor.

In the presence of ammonium salts the precipitate is dirt y white in colour, whilst in the presence of free ammonia it is a buff colour.

Wetzlar brought new friends and another passion, that for Charlotte Buff, the daughter of the Amtmann there - a love-story which has been immortalized in Werthers Leiden - and again the young poet's nature was obsessed by a love which was this time strong enough to bring him to the brink of that suicide with which the novel ends.

Buff of Giessen, and first practically carried out by Charles Dunlop at St Rollox.

Here also are polished stalagmites, a rich buff slashed with white, and others, like huge mushrooms, with a velvety coat of red, purple or olive-tinted crystals.

It contains considerable humic matter, discolouring rapidly in the air (when exposed it is characteristically a bright buff).

To have the job you need to be proficient in all aspects of operating a wine buff business.

For this reason, we proposed Spraygrip with 3-5mm buff calcined bauxite.

The funnel shaped earthenware bowl in buff color, bears the design of a mountain goat drawn around it skillfully.

An avid film buff, who loves to go to flicks on a regular basis.