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BUFF, v. to embrace.
 * ' Thaw knaws but last year
 * man I did fear;
 * I wor fit for booath cooartin and buffin. '
 * Mather's Songs, 107.

BUFFALO, sb. the horn used for the sides of penknives or knives for the pocket.
 * ' It is now nothing more than the horn of the ox, but the existence of this as a word in ordinary use seems to show that anciently the horn used was, or was supposed to be, the horn of a buffalo. ' —Hunter's MS.

BUFFET, sb. a footstool.
 * ' Little Miss Muffet
 * Sat on a buffet,
 * Eating her curds and whey;
 * There came a little spider,
 * And sat down beside her,
 * And frightened Miss Muffet away. '

BUG, adj. pleased.
 * ' He wur rare and bug ' (he was very pleased).

BUGTH, sb. size.
 * ' About the bugth o ' my thomb. '

BULKE, a field in Ecclesfield.
 * ' A close called the Bulke lying next Hunger hill. ' —Harrison.

BULL-HEAD, sb. a tadpole.

BULL-HIDED. A man who cannot sweat is said to be bullhided.

BULLOCKING, boasting insolently.
 * ' You've heard with what bullocking speeches
 * I sold . . . my new breeches. '
 * Mather's Songs, 80.

BULL-SPINK, sb. a bull-finch or chaffinch.

BULL-STAKE, sb. an open place near the market in Sheffield.
 * Under the word ' bearward, ' which I have not inserted, Hunter says, ' When bear-baiting was among the amusements of a low population, the person who kept the bear was known as the bearward. This gross amusement seems to have run out with the last century. Bull-baiting had disappeared from Hallamshire long before, but the memory of it is preserved in the name of an open place near the market, called the Bull-stake. ' —Hunter's MS.
 * ' The said croft called Skinner croft, alias Bulstake croft, lyeth next new lane west and Church lane north, and divers gardens east. ' —Harrison. It contained 2 roods and 19½ perches.

BULLY, sb. a bullace.