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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bull \Bull\, v. i. To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do [Colloq.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bull \Bull\, v. t. (Stock Exchange) To endeavor to raise the market price of as to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in as to bull the market. See 1st {Bull}, n., 4. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bull \Bull\, n. [OE. bulle, fr L. bulla bubble, stud, knob, LL., a seal or stamp: cf F. bulle. Cf {Bull} a writing, {Bowl} a ball, {Boil}, v. i.] 1. A seal. See {Bulla}. 2. A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated ``a die Incarnationis,'' i. e., ``from the day of the Incarnation.'' See Apostolical brief, under {Brief}. A fresh bull of Leo's had declared how inflexible the court of Rome was in the point of abuses. --Atterbury. 3. A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility. And whereas the papist boasts himself to be a Roman Catholic, it is a mere contradiction, one of the pope's bulls, as if he should say universal particular; a Catholic schimatic. --Milton. {The Golden Bull}, an edict or imperial constitution made by the emperor Charles IV (1356), containing what became the fundamental law of the German empire; -- so called from its golden seal. Syn: See {Blunder}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bull \Bull\, a. Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large fierce. {Bull bat} (Zo["o]l.), the night hawk; -- so called from the loud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. {Bull calf}. a A stupid fellow. {Bull mackerel} (Zo["o]l.), the chub mackerel. {Bull pump} (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. {Bull snake} (Zo["o]l.), the pine snake of the United States. {Bull stag}, a castrated bull. See {Stag}. {Bull wheel}, a wheel, or drum, on which a rope is wound for lifting heavy articles, as logs, the tools in well boring, etc From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bull \Bull\, n. [OE. bule, bul, bole; akin to D. bul, G. bulle, Icel. boli, Lith. bullus, Lett. bollis, Russ. vol'; prob. fr the root of AS bellan E. bellow.] 1. (Zo["o]l.) The male of any species of cattle ({Bovid[ae]}); hence the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also the male of the whale. Note: The wild bull of the Old Testament is thought to be the oryx, a large species of antelope. 2. One who or that which resembles a bull in character or action --Ps. xxii. 12. 3. (Astron.) a Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. b A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades. At last from Aries rolls the bounteous sun, And the bright Bull receives him --Thomson. 4. (Stock Exchange) One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th {Bear}, n., 5. {Bull baiting}, the practice of baiting bulls, or rendering them furious, as by setting dogs to attack them {John Bull}, a humorous name for the English, collectively; also an Englishman. ``Good-looking young John Bull.'' --W. D.Howells. {To take the bull by the horns}, to grapple with a difficulty instead of avoiding it From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bull adj : characterized by rising prices; "a bull market" [syn: {bull(a)}] n 1: uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle 2: a very large and strong man; "he was a bull of a man" [syn: {strapper}] 3: a ludicrously false statement [syn: {bullshit}, {Irish bull}, {horseshit}, {shit}, {crap}, {bunk}, {bunkum}, {buncombe}, {guff}, {rot}, {hogwash}, {dogshit}] 4: a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment" 5: (informal) uncomplimentary terms for a policeman [syn: {cop}, {copper}, {fuzz}, {pig}] 6: an investor with an optimistic market outlook [ant: {bear}] 7: the center of a target [syn: {bull's eye}] 8: mature male of various mammals of which the female is called `cow'; e.g. whales or elephants or especially cattle v 1: push or force; "He bulled through his demands" [syn: {bull through}] 2: try to raise the price of stocks through speculative buying 3: talk through one's hat [syn: {waffle}, {bullshit}, {fake}] 4: advance in price, as of stocks From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: Bull {Bull Information Systems}
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