Buffo

1. n.masc. The comic actor in an opera.

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Buffa

1. a. Comic, farcical.
2. n. fem. The comic actress in an opera.

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Buffaloes

1. pl. of Buffalo

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Buffalo

1. n. The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
2. 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.
3. n. A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; — called also Cape buffalo.
4. n. Any species of wild ox.
5. n. The bison of North America.
6. n. A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.

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Buddle

1. v. i. To wash ore in a buddle.
2. n. An apparatus, especially an inclined trough or vat, in which stamped ore is concentrated by subjecting it to the action of running water so as to wash out the lighter and less valuable portions.

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Buffel duck

1. A small duck (Charitonetta albeola); the spirit duck, or butterball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.

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Bude burner

1. A burner consisting of two or more concentric Argand burners (the inner rising above the outer) and a central tube by which oxygen gas or common air is supplied.

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Buffer

1. n. A good-humored, slow-witted fellow; — usually said of an elderly man.
2. n. An elastic apparatus or fender, for deadening the jar caused by the collision of bodies; as, a buffer at the end of a railroad car.
3. n. A pad or cushion forming the end of a fender, which receives the blow; — sometimes called buffing apparatus.
4. n. One who polishes with a buff.
5. n. A wheel for buffing; a buff.

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Bude light

1. A light in which high illuminating power is obtained by introducing a jet of oxygen gas or of common air into the center of a flame fed with coal gas or with oil.

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Bufferhead

1. n. The head of a buffer, which recieves the concussion, in railroad carriages.

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