[f. BUFF sb.2 and a. + -Y1.]

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  1.  Of a color approaching to buff.

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1842.  Blackw. Mag., LI. 678. A buffy line across the horizon.

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1850.  Fraser’s Mag., XLII. 188. Tail feathers with buffy white terminations.

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  2.  Physiol. Applied to blood having a ‘buff’ or BUFFY COAT.

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1782.  S. F. Simmons, in Med. Commun., I. 122. A coagulum … of a firm buffy texture.

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1827.  Abernethy, Surg. Wks., II. 11. The blood, on standing, appeared very buffy.

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1835–6.  Todd, Cycl. Anat. & Phys., I. 424/2. A buffy crust is … formed on the surface of the clot.

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