3. A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
Go fetch us a light buffet.
Townely Myst.
Buffet
(Buf"fet), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Buffeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Buffeting.] [OE. buffeten, OF. buffeter.
See the preceding noun.]
1. To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
They spit in his face and buffeted him.
Matt. xxvi. 67.
2. To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against; as, to buffet the billows.
The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,
Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
Broome.
You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the
world.
W. Black.
3. [Cf. Buffer.] To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
Buffet
(Buf"fet), v. i.
1. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.
Shak.
2. To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Strove to buffet to land in vain.
Tennyson.
Buffeter
(Buf"fet*er) n. One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson.
Buffeting
(Buf"fet*ing), n.
1. A striking with the hand.
2. A succession of blows; continued violence, as of winds or waves; afflictions; adversity.
He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest
storm.
Wirt.
Buffin
(Buf"fin) n. [So called from resembling buff eather.] A sort of coarse stuff; as, buffin gowns.
[Obs.]
Buffing apparatus
(Buff"ing ap`pa*ra"tus) See Buffer, 1.
Buffle
(Buf"fle) n. [OE., from F. buffle. See Buffalo.] The buffalo. [Obs.] Sir T. Herbert.
Buffle
(Buf"fle), v. i. To puzzle; to be at a loss. [Obs.] Swift.
Bufflehead
(Buf"fle*head`) n. [Buffle + head.]
1. One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.]
What makes you stare so, bufflehead?
Plautus
2. (Zoöl.) The buffel duck. See Buffel duck.
