Bull

bool, n. the male of the ox kind: an old male whale, fur-seal, .: a sign of the zodiac: one who tries artificially and unduly to raise the price of stocks, and speculates on a rise.— adj. denoting largene of size—used in composition, as bull-trout: favourable to the bulls, rising.— v.t. to try to raise, as the price of shares, artificially: to copulate with a cow, of a bull.— v.i. to be in heat, of a cow.— ns. Bull′-baiting , the sport of baiting or exciting bulls with dogs; Bull′-bat ( U.S. ), the night-hawk or goat-sucker; Bull′-beef , the beef or flesh of bulls, coarse beef: ( Shak. , in pl. ) Bull′-beeves ; Bull′-begg′ar , a hobgoblin, .; Bull′-calf , a male calf: a stupid fellow, a lout; Bull′-dance , a dance of men only; Bull′dog , a breed of dogs of great courage, formerly used for baiting bulls, its general appearance that of a smooth-coated, compact dog, low in stature, but broad and powerful, with a ma ive head, large in proportion to its body: a person of obstinate courage: a short-barrelled revolver of large calibre: a proctor's attendant at Oxford and Cambridge.— v.t. Bull′-dose ( U.S. ) to intimidate, bully: flog.— n. Bull′-dōs′er .— adj. Bull′-faced , having a large face.— ns. Bull′-fight , a popular spectacle in Spain, in which a bull is goaded to fury in a kind of circus by mounted picadores armed with lances, and finally despatched by a specially skilful espada or swordsman; Bull′-fight′er ; Bull′-finch , a species of red-breasted finch a little larger than the common linnet, closely allied to the gro beaks and cro bills: a kind of hedge hard to jump; Bull′-frog , a large North American frog.— adj. Bull′-front′ed , having a front or forehead like a bull.— n. Bull′-head , or Miller's Thumb , a small river fish remarkable for its large, flat head.— adj. Bull′-head′ed , impetuous and obstinate.— n. Bull′-head′edne .— adj. Bull′ish .— ns. Bull′ock , an ox or castrated bull; Bull′-roar′er , a provincial English name for a boy's plaything, made of an oblong piece of wood, to one end of which a string is tied, then twisted tightly round the finger, when the whole is whirled rapidly round and round until a loud and peculiar whirring noise is produced—the native Australian turndun , the rhombos of the Greek mysteries; Bull's′-eye , the central bo formed in making a sheet of blown gla (hence adj. Bull's′-eyed ), a round piece of gla in a lantern, a policeman's lantern, a round opening or window: the centre of a target, of a different colour from the rest, and usually round: a thick lump of coloured or striped candy; Bull′-terr′ier , a species of dog, a cro -breed between the bulldog and the terrier; Bull′-trout , a large trout of the salmon genus, also migratory in its habits, often called the Gray Trout ; Bull′-whack , a heavy whip.— v.t. to lash with such.— n. Bull′wort , the bishop's weed.— Bull into , to plunge hastily into.— A bull in a china-shop , a synonym for a man who does harm through ignorance or fury, a man completely out of place.— Take the bull by the horns , to face a danger or difficulty with courage, to take the initiative boldly in a struggle. [M.E. bole , prob. Scand. bole , boli ; most prob. cog. with Bellow .]