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The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male
of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale. |
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One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or
action. |
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Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac. |
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A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It
contains the Pleiades. |
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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. |
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Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large;
fierce. |
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To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do. |
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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. |
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A seal. See Bulla. |
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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. |
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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. |
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