Bull

·vi A seal. ·see Bulla.

II. Bull ·noun Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

III. Bull ·vi To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

IV. Bull ·noun One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.

V. Bull ·adj Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.

VI. Bull ·noun A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.

VII. Bull ·noun One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. ·see 4th Bear, ·noun, 5.

VIII. Bull ·noun The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

IX. Bull ·vt 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, ·noun, 4.

X. Bull ·vi 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.

XI. Bull ·vi 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.