2. (noun)bull, bruiser, strapper, Samson a large and strong and heavyset man "he was a bull of a man"; "a thick-skinned bruiser ready to give as good as he got"
3. (noun)bullshit, bull, Irish bull, horseshit, shit, crap, dogshit obscene words for unacceptable behavior "I put up with a lot of bullshit from that jerk"; "what he said was mostly bull"
4. (noun)bull a serious and ludicrous blunder "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
5. (noun)bull, cop, copper, fuzz, pig uncomplimentary terms for a policeman
6. (noun)bull an investor with an optimistic market outlook; an investor who expects prices to rise and so buys now for resale later
14. (verb)talk through one's hat, bullshit, bull, fake speak insincerely or without regard for facts or truths "The politician was not well prepared for the debate and faked it"
15. (verb)bull advance in price "stocks were bulling"
1. (adj)bull of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce
2. (noun)bull the male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale
3. (noun)bull one who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action
4. (noun)bull taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac
5. (noun)bull a constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades
6. (noun)bull 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
7. (verb)bull to be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do
8. (verb)bull 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
10. (verb)bull 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
11. (verb)bull a grotesqueblunder 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
Definitions of 'bull'
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
1. bull an edict of the Pope, so called from a leaden seal attached to it.