Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bull"

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) 1.7 (wn)

bull
adj : characterized by rising prices; "a bull market" [syn: {bull(a)}]
n 1: uncastrated adult male of domestic cattle
2: a large and strong and heavyset man; "he was a bull of a
man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he
got" [syn: {bruiser}, {strapper}, {Samson}]
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; "The politician was not well
prepared for the debate and faked it" [syn: {bullshit}, {fake}]
4: advance in price, as of stocks


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