(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.
(n.) The color of buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown.
(n.) A military coat, made of buff leather.
(n.) The grayish viscid substance constituting the buffy coat. See Buffy coat, under Buffy, a.
(a.) A wheel covered with buff leather, and used in polishing cutlery, spoons, etc.
(a.) The bare skin; as, to strip to the buff.
(a.) Made of buff leather.
(a.) Of the color of buff.
(v. t.) To polish with a buff. See Buff, n., 5.
(v. t.) To strike.
(n.) A buffet; a blow; -- obsolete except in the phrase "Blindman's buff."
(a.) Firm; sturdy.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some offer a range, depending on whether you think you're a bit of a buff, and know a pinot meunier from a pinot noir and what prestige cuvée actually means or you just want to see a bit of the process and have a nice glass of bubbly at the end of it, before moving on to the next place – touring a pretty corner of France getting slowly, and delightfully, fizzled.
(2) Like, I am well, well equipped for this thing.” For their one survival item each, Rogen brought a role of toilet paper, while Franco brought sunglasses and mugs continually for the camera, giving his best Spring Breakers faces while in the buff.
(3) Most train yards have a washer system, which we call the "buff", that takes about 10 minutes to clean the whole train, and that's it – it goes back into service.
(4) In vitro autoradiography was used to compare the D-1 and D-2 receptor densities in brains from Buffalo (BUFF) and Fischer 344 (F344) rats.
(5) On Tuesday a piece called Art Buff appeared on a wall in Folkestone, Kent – another part of Britain where immigration is high on the political agenda.
(6) Former BBC 6 Music presenter Phill Jupitus said his departure was "something that, as a lover of music and radio buff, I had always hoped would never happen" .
(7) T. buffeli and T. orientalis also represented immunodominant antigens.
(8) In the past decade he has become known as the buff, handsome actor able to genre-jump: he has done comedies (Just Friends, Van Wilder: Party Liaison), horror (The Amityville Horror remake, which is memorable to his fans mostly because it featured Reynolds chopping wood topless), action thrillers (Blade: Trinity) and, in 2009, his breakout romcom The Proposal, in which he starred opposite Sandra Bullock.
(9) The present study suggests that T. sergenti should be separated from T. buffeli and T. orientalis on the basis of their serological dissimilarities.
(10) Its Genes Reunited site takes a much more mass-market approach than Find My Past, which is used by more "hardcore" genealogy buffs.
(11) It remains the achievement with which he is most often linked, except perhaps by movie buffs who admire the films that have preoccupied him over the past couple of decades: La Reine Margot , Intimacy , Gabrielle , Son Frère , Persécution , Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train .
(12) Elastase and buff-treated lobes were inflated cyclically with humidified air to a pressure of 20 cm H2O 6 times per min during a 16-hour period.
(13) Meanwhile, Dom (no relation) starts planning his own venture, a piri-piri chicken restaurant (drool), then goes cruising in a bath house where he meets Scott Bakula – hot off his Emmy-nominated performance in HBO's Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra , and looking unfeasibly buff for a 59-year-old.
(14) Differences in veil constituents were found between T. sergenti, T. buffeli and T. orientalis.
(15) His father, Kim Jong-il , was a well-known movie buff who ordered the abduction of the South Korean director Shin Sang-ok in 1987.
(16) It was these roles that gave him a serious cachet among a generation of film buffs who became movie makers, such as David Zucker, who cast him in the comedy spoof Top Secret!
(17) The direct migration inhibition test with peripheral buff-coated leukocytes, is an easy and reliable correlate of delayed hypersensitivity to mycobacterial antigens in the human body.
(18) The news will come as no surprise to film buffs who for years have been playing the parlour game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, in which they link other actors to Bacon in six films or fewer.
(19) If he wants a seven-foot picture of a woman feeding a giraffe in the buff, he's probably going to get one.
(20) Test resin was allowed to polymerize, and then buff polished or treated by surface smoothing.
Viscid
Definition:
(a.) Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.
Example Sentences:
(1) Chronicity and obliteration of the appendiceal lumen with abnormally viscid mucus may lead to concealed perforation and be responsible for the atypical presentation.
(2) The dilation of the cervical canal is made easier and sometimes the embryo is aborted if a viscid preparation containing Prostaglandin F 22 is injected intracervically 12 hours prior to the scheduled procedure.
(3) The results showed that methylcysteine increased sputum volume, reduced the viscidity of sputum, and significantly improved the subjective assessments of ease of expectoration and severity and frequency of cough, leading to a definite improvement in the patients' clinical state.
(4) Administration of mucodin improves bronchial clearance promoting normalization of bronchial permeability; a positive time course of viscid-elastic indices of the sputum is noted in comparison with the control group.
(5) At autopsy, more than half of the right lower lobe of the lung was occupied by a pale whitish, viscid and glossy tumour mass.
(6) The influence of the loading velocity on Young's modulus was evaluated, and revealed an elastic and a viscid component, and that an asymptotic limit applies.
(7) The formation of viscid colonies and inability to grow in a medium without sodium chloride or at 37 C were additional characteristics of these organisms.
(8) Three dimensional laminar, viscid flow is developed for Newtonian fluids which provides absolute values for axial, radial and tangential velocity fields everywhere if the dimensions of the vessel are known and two simultaneous axial velocities e.g.
(9) These may be detected in cell culture by developmental techniques, in which progenitors form colonies in viscid or semisolid media in response to appropriate stimulation.
(10) Simultaneous recording of thrombloelastogram, coagulbbogram, and platelet degranulation demonstrated that processes of viscid metamorphosis of platelets and fibrin filaments sedimentation were followed by active clot contraction.
(11) MIE is characterized by partial or complete bowel obstruction, resulting from abnormally viscid mucofaeculant material in the terminal ileum and right colon.
(12) They were non motile and viscid colonies were formed.
(13) It contains fluid secretion, yellowish translucent and viscid in character.
(14) Since the compensatory potentials of vasomotor factors at this level are also very high, the collateral viscidation is not only facilitated but by the same token partially compensated.
(15) These values demonstrate a decrease in the pulmonary blood flow rate and an increase in its volume as well as improvement of the elastic-viscid properties of blood vessel walls.
(16) An analysis of bile composition following orthotopic liver transplantation in the rhesus monkey showed that during rejection only small quantities of viscid bile were produced and that this was associated with increased cholesterol saturation.
(17) Considerably more alarming was a series of photographs of Linder and an American gallerist accomplice covered in a wild array of gloopy, dripping colour; in one image, only the artist's eyes were recognisable, such was the quantity of what seemed to be viscid pigment.
(18) Biliary obstruction was caused by viscid mucus in two patients with congenital bile duct abnormalities.
(19) At surgery, all specimens were viscid or pastelike with no evidence of hemorrhagic products as a cause for the MR findings.
(20) The investigations were performed with roentgeno-television control using viscid contrast substances (propyliodone) and gel-like triiodinated liquid contrast media (verografin, urografin, triombrast, etc.).