Buffalo
['bʌfələʊ] or ['bʌfəlo]
Definition
(noun.) meat from an American bison.
(noun.) a city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls).
(verb.) intimidate or overawe.
Typist: Marietta--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
(n.) A very large and savage species of the same genus (B. Caffer) found in South Africa; -- called also Cape buffalo.
(n.) Any species of wild ox.
(n.) The bison of North America.
(n.) A buffalo robe. See Buffalo robe, below.
(n.) The buffalo fish. See Buffalo fish, below.
Checker: Sumner
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [U. S.] Bison.
Checker: Otis
Definition
n. a genus of the ox kind the tame often domesticated Asiatic buffalo and the entirely wild and fierce Cape buffalo. The so-called American buffalo is really a 'bison.'
Typist: Rodger
Unserious Contents or Definition
If a woman dreams that she kills a lot of buffaloes, she will undertake a stupendous enterprise, but by enforcing will power and leaving off material pleasures, she will win commendation from men, and may receive long wished for favors. Buffalo, seen in a dream, augurs obstinate and powerful but stupid enemies. They will boldly declare against you but by diplomacy you will escape much misfortune.
Typist: Shane
Examples
- The buffalo-skins, doubled in fours, were spread all along one side, and four men, with great difficulty, lifted the heavy form of Tom into it. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- People who saw the Southern herd of buffalo, fifteen or twenty years ago, can appreciate the size of the Texas band of wild horses in 1846. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- These included the chief cities on the seaboard, Buffalo, Chicago, and Omaha. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Following their début on the motor tandem at Buffalo, this pair proceeded to make records throughout the country, several of which still stand today. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Oh, how simple it would all have been had I been here before they came like a herd of buffalo and wallowed all over it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- American game of all kinds are kept here, from buffalo, elk, and moose to the smaller and more timid varieties, and there has been a rapid increase. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The machine which he produced with a motor of his own design was entered in some big races at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo in 1901 where nearly every record was broken. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Your rich Lowick farmers are as curious as any buffaloes or bisons, and I dare say you don't half see them at church. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Here are the two buffaloes, said Rachel. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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