bullbat (bulb at)

A local or popular name in the United States of the night-hawk or long winged goatsucker, Chordeiles popetue or C. vir ginianus. So called from its flying most in the evening or in cloudy weather, and from the noise which it makes as it moves through the air. It belongs to the family Ca primulgide, like the whippoorwill, but is of a different genus. Also called pisk and piramidig. bull be art, n. [ bugbear. Harvey. bullbee (bül'bē), n. bull-beef (bül'bēf), hence, coarse beef. quial.] ( Hall i well.) Same as bullfly. n. The flesh of a bull; [In the latter sense collo lar bulla, but this is formed by an extension of the bases of the alse tempo rales (Dasyurus, Petaurist a, Per a me les). Gegenbaur, Comp. Anat, (trans.), p. 466. 6. [ cap.] A genus of tectibranchiate (or pleurobranchiate) gastropods, to which very differ ent limits have been a igned. (a) By the old conchologists not only were most of the tectibranch i ates included, but also various other gastropods having shells like or supposed to be like them were referred to the genus. (b) By recent writers it is restricted to the bubble shells, so called from their ventricous oval IMG:content-2716.png:[blocks in formation] shells, so convoluted that the last whorl envelops all the others: typical of the family Bullida. Also called Glan dula.