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Buffill, n. Also: buffil, -ell, bufill, beufil. [e.m.E. buffell (c 1511), F. buffle.]

1. A buffalo. c1590 J. Stewart 95/575.
Quho on the feilds dismembrit euerie day Bauld buls And beufils 1596 Dalr. I. 58/20.
This scheip may be comparet … in gretnes til a buffil, quhais hornes in lenth excelis the hornes of a buffil

b. Attrib. with hide. 1566 Treasurer's Accounts MS. 39.
Ane buffill hide to couer the sadillis 1597 Bk. Rates 6 b.
Hydis callit eisterling salt hydes … The buffill hyde [etc.] 1598 Edinburgh Testaments XXXI. 298 b.
Half ane buffill hyd

2. Attrib. (esp. with belt or cote): Made of buff leather.(1) 1567 Edinburgh Testaments I. 52 b.
Ane buffill belt 1569 Ib. II. 21 b.
viiij buffill beltis 1582 Ib. XI. 73 b.
Thrie ȝallow buffill beltis 1612 Bk. Rates 289.
Beltis called buffill beltis the dozen, iii li. 1643 Edinburgh Testaments LX. 236.
Twa dossane and nyn buffell sword beltis(2) 1565 Treasurer's Accounts XI. 391.
Silk to the bufill cote, hois, and sacreit 1577 Edinburgh Testaments V. 85.
Ane buffill coit & ane pair of plaidis 1624 Peebles B. Rec. 364.
Archbald Frank [the provost] ordanis to haue ane buffill coit 1629 Reg. Privy C. III. 231.
John Ramsay … going before with ane buffill coate on him … drew thame up in militarie forme 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 42.
A buffell coit(3) 1590 Thanes of Cawdor 197.
For making of his buffill doublatt 1593 Edinburgh Testaments XXV. 163.
Ane stand of buffill clais 1593 Ib. 192.
Tua buffill baggis

3. Buff leather. 1597 Bk. Rates 2 b.
Beltis of buffill the dosane, iij li. 1612 Bk. Rates (Halyb.) 289.
Hingaris of buffill