Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Budlet (n.) A little bud springing from a parent bud.

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

(1) - Buffalo (n.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
(2) - Buffalo (n.) A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
(3) - Buffalo (n.) The bison of North America.
(4) - Buffalo (n.) Any species of wild ox.
(5) - Buffalo (n.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
(6) - Buffalo (n.) A species of the genus Bos or Bubalus (B. bubalus), originally from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.