1. bull - Noun
2. bull - Adjective
3. bull - Verb
4. Bull - Proper 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.
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
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.
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
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.
A seal. See Bulla.
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 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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull. W. C. Fields
The world is a bundle of hay, Mankind are the asses who pull Each tugs it a different way, And the greatest of all is John Bull. Lord Byron
I am as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit. Theodore Roosevelt
You can't keep a bull in the kraal. Tswana Proverb
It is better to be a bull for a year than a cow for a hundred years. Croatian Proverb
The bull that is used to the sun shivers by the light of the moon. Korean Proverb