meaning of bull

1. The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
2. One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
3. Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
4. A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
5. 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.
6. Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
7. To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
8. 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.
9. A seal. See Bulla.
10. 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. 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 popes bulls and his professions of humility.
12. A species of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.
13. A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.
14. In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.
15. Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout.
16. The huso or salmon of the Danube.
17. Alt. of Bullfly
18. Bull Bull Information Systems bulletin board bulletin board system bulletin board system application> BBS, bboard /beebord/; after a physical piece of board on which people can pin messages written on paper for general consumption - a "physical bboard". A computer and associated software which typically provides an electronic message database where people can log in and leave messages. Messages are typically split into topic groups similar to the newsgroups on Usenet which is like a distributed BBS. Any user may submit or read any message in these public areas. Apart from public message areas, a BBS may provide archives of files, personal electronic mail and any other services or activities of interest to the bulletin boards system operator the "sysop". Thousands of local BBSes are in operation throughout the world, typically run by amateurs for fun out of their homes on MS-DOS boxes with a single modem line each. Although BBSes have traditionally been the domain of hobbyists, an increasing number of BBSes are connected directly to the Internet, and many BBSes are currently operated by government, educational, and research institutions. Fans of Usenet and Internet or the big commercial time-sharing bboards such as CompuServe, CIX and GEnie tend to consider local BBSes the low-rent district of the hacker culture, but they serve a valuable function by knitting together lots of hackers and users in the personal-micro world who would otherwise be unable to exchange code at all. Use of this term for a Usenet newsgroup generally marks one either as a newbie fresh in from the BBS world or as a real old-timer predating Usenet.

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