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Buffalo

noun

(pl. buffaloes)

Large shaggy-haired brown bison of North American plains. Synonyms: American bison, American buffalo, Bison bison.

A city on Lake Erie in western New York (near Niagara Falls).

Meat from an American bison.

Any of several Old World animals resembling oxen including, e.g., water buffalo; Cape buffalo. Synonym: Old World buffalo.

verb

Intimidate or overawe.

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"Buffalo" Quotes from Famous Books

... the city has increased from twelve hundred in 1817 to nearly sixty thousand at present. In the morning we took a hurried survey of its chief buildings, visited Queen's Park in the centre of the city, and got round in season to take the afternoon steamer for Buffalo. ...

— Bay State Monthly, Vol. II, No. 1, October, 1884 - A Massachusetts Magazine • Various

... ancestor the Viking; to slay pheasant and partridge, like his predatory forefathers; to fish for salmon in the Highlands; to hunt the fox, to sail the yacht, to scour the earth in search of great game—lions, elephants, buffalo. His one task is to kill—either his ...

— Post-Prandial Philosophy • Grant Allen

... Gunga chuckled. "He rose from his place like a buffalo, rump first and then shoulder after shoulder! Such men are safe! Such men have no guile beyond what will help them to obey! Such men think too slowly to invent deceit for its ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

... up with a darning needle and black linen thread; the woman recovered and bore a healthy child at the full maturity of her gestation. Crowdace speaks of a female pauper, six months pregnant, who was attacked by a buffalo, and suffered a wound about 1 1/2 inch long and 1/2 inch wide just above the umbilicus. Through this small opening 19 inches of intestine protruded. The woman recovered, and the fetal heart-beats could be ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... of a hamfatter like McCallum, who's come back from Buffalo on a brake beam so often that he always sleeps with one arm crooked around the bedpost, havin' the nerve to call himself a school of dramatic art! Course, I didn't think Marjorie was so easy as to fall for a fake like that. She must be ...

— Torchy • Sewell Ford

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