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Webster 1913 Edition

Buffet

Buf-fet′

(boŏf-fā′)
,
Noun.
[F.
buffet
, LL.
bufetum
; of uncertain origin; perh. fr. the same source as E.
buffet
a blow, the root meaning
to puff
, hence (cf.
puffed up
) the idea of ostentation or display.]
1.
A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
Not when a gilt
buffet’s
reflected pride
Turns you from sound philosophy aside.
Pope.
2.
A counter for food or refreshments.
3.
Hence:
A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.

Buf′fet

(bŭf′fĕt)
,
Noun.
[OE.
buffet
,
boffet
, OF.
buffet
a slap in the face, a pair of bellows, fr.
buffe
blow, cf. F.
bouffer
to blow, puff; prob. akin to E.
puff
. For the meaning
slap
,
blow
, cf. F.
soufflet
a slap,
souffler
to blow. See
Puff
,
Verb.
I.
, and cf.
Buffet
sidebroad,
Buffoon
]
1.
A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
When on his cheek a
buffet
fell.
Sir W. Scott.
2.
A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the
buffets
of the Bay of Biscay.
Burke.
Fortune's
buffets
and rewards.
Shakespeare
3.
A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
Go fetch us a light
buffet
.
Townely Myst.

Buf′fet

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Buffeted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Buffeting
.]
[OE.
buffeten
, OF.
buffeter
. See the preceding noun.]
1.
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
They spit in his face and
buffeted
him.
Matt. xxvi. 67.
2.
To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against;
as, to
buffet
the billows
.
The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,
Buffets
the bark, and whirls it from the shores.
Broome.
You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being
buffeted
about the world.
W. Black.
3.
[Cf.
Buffer
.]
To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

Buf′fet

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
If I might
buffet
for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.
Shakespeare
2.
To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Strove to
buffet
to land in vain.
Tennyson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Buffet

BUFF'ET

,
Noun.
A cupboard, or set of shelves, for plates, glass, china and other like furniture. It was formerly and is still in some parts of the country, an apartment erected on one side of a room; but in more fashionable houses,it has been laid aside, and a side board substituted, which is now considered as the buffet. But as far as my knowledge extends, the name has become, in a great measure, obsolete, except among the common people,by whom it is pronounced bofat.

BUFF'ET

,
Noun.
A blow with the fist; a box on the ear or face; a slap.

BUFF'ET

,
Verb.
T.
To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat.
They spit in his face and buffetted him. Math.26.
1.
To beat in contention; to contend against; as, to buffet the billows.

BUFF'ET

,
Verb.
I.
To exercise or play at boxing.

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