v. t.
They spit in his face and buffeted him. Matt. xxvi. 67. [ 1913 Webster ]
The sudden hurricane in thunder roars,
Buffets the bark, and whirls it from the shores. Broome. [ 1913 Webster ]
You are lucky fellows who can live in a dreamland of your own, instead of being buffeted about the world. W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ 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. ]
Not when a gilt buffet's reflected pride
Turns you from sound philosophy aside. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ 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, v. i., and cf. Buffet sidebroad, Buffoon ]
When on his cheek a buffet fell. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]
Those planks of tough and hardy oak that used for yeas to brave the buffets of the Bay of Biscay. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]
Fortune's buffets and rewards. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Go fetch us a light buffet. Townely Myst. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. i.
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]
Strove to buffet to land in vain. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]
adj. struck repeatedly; -- used especially of impact from winds, and sometimes metaphorically;
n. One who buffets; a boxer. Jonson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n.
He seems to have been a plant of slow growth, but . . . fitted to endure the buffeting on the rudest storm. Wirt. [ 1913 Webster ]