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.