Word Finder - bull

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An adult male of domesticated cattle or oxen.

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A male of domesticated cattle or oxen of any age.

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Any adult male bovine.

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An adult male of certain large mammals, such as whales, elephants, camels and seals.

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A large, strong man.

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An investor who buys (commodities or securities) in anticipation of a rise in prices.

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A policeman.

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A crown coin; its value, 5 shillings.

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(Philadelphia) A man.

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A man who has sex with another man's wife or girlfriend with the consent of both.

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A drink made by pouring water into a cask that previously held liquor.

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Large and strong, like a bull.

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• beefy
• hunky
• robust

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(of large mammals) adult male

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a bull elephant

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• male

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Of a market in which prices are rising (compare bear)

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Stupid

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• stupid

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The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.

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A shot which hits the centre of a target.

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The two central rings on a dartboard.

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A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet.

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Thick glass set into the side of a ship to let in light.

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A hand-cancelled postmark issued by a counter clerk at a post office, typically done on a receipt for proof of mailing.

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The central part of a crown glass disk, with concentric ripple effect.

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A convex glass lens which is placed in front of a lamp to concentrate the light so as to make it more conspicuous as a signal; also the lantern itself.

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A £50 banknote.

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Any of the first postage stamps produced in Brazil from 1843.

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The faeces of a bull.

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False or exaggerated statements made to impress and deceive the listener rather than inform; nonsense.

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Don't pay any attention to him. He talks a lot of bullshit.

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• BS
• bull
• bulldada
• bullpucky
• bushwah
• malarkey

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A card game in which the object is to bluff about cards laid down and to determine when one's opponents are bluffing.

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Anyone want to play a few hands of bullshit?

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• BS
• I doubt it
• cheat

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An object of frustration and/or disgust, often caused by a perceived deception.

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That's total bullshit! I called your office and they said you never came in!

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Statements that may be true but misleading nonetheless.

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Statements made without any particular reference to their truth value.

A mature bull weighs over a ton and can be six feet or more at the hump.

It might be a big bull calf.

Have you seen the Longhorn bull lately?

Let's see if we can find that bull before the bear does.

Nothing was stated as to the probability of an increase in the stature of the French Congo animal as it grows older; but even if we allow another foot, its height would be considerably less than half that of a large Central African bull of the ordinary elephant.

But the bear hadn't killed the bull until it became entangled in the brush.

I replaced the bull last year to prevent inbreeding, but I've been pleased with the offspring.

Ah, here they are--the mixed metaphors mocking and strutting about before me, pointing to the bull in the china shop assailed by hailstones and the bugbears with pale looks, an unanalyzed species!

Lisa, you're so bull headed.

By the way; is the psychic a she or was that just bull shit?

I crossed my fingers that he was stupid enough to believe my bull shit.

They left the bull where it lay, reasoning that if they removed it, the bear might go hunting fresh meat.

They stopped at the spring where they had found the dead longhorn bull years ago and dismounted to let the horses rest.

It could have been a bull after her, but it wasn't the right season and they hadn't been bugling.

A papal bull having also been obtained, on the 28th of August 1425, the archbishop, in the course of a visitation of Lincoln diocese, executed his letters patent founding the college, dedicating it to the Virgin, St Thomas Becket and St Edward the Confessor, and handed over the buildings to its members, the vicar of Higham Ferrers being made the first master or warden.

Like two bull Elk, they were each so focused on pushing the other back that they had forgotten anyone else existed.

They found the bull close to the spring, dead and partially consumed, his horns still entangled in brush.

Well, with all that bull you've been peddling, somebody around here is bound to need them eventually.

Leo then formally excommunicated Luther by bull of the 3rd of January 1521; and in a brief directed the emperor to take energetic measures against heresy.

Germany rejected the bull of investiture.

I have had many dog friends--huge mastiffs, soft-eyed spaniels, wood-wise setters and honest, homely bull terriers.

However, I should never have broken a horse or bull and taken him to board for any work he might do for me, for fear I should become a horseman or a herdsman merely; and if society seems to be the gainer by so doing, are we certain that what is one man's gain is not another's loss, and that the stable-boy has equal cause with his master to be satisfied?

At the time, we felt so infallible in our rightness we grabbed the proverbial bull by the horns exposing ourselves to a wealth of trouble.

The thought that the bull might have starved made her stomach turn.

His bull of the 1st of July 1519, which regulated the discipline of the Polish Church, was later transformed into a concordat by Clement VII.

They were finally condemned at Rome by the bull Auctorem fidei of the 28th of August 1794.

Having obtained a papal bull, he founded it by deed of the 12th of June 1458, converting the hospital into a college with a president and six fellows, to which college two days later Magdalen Hall surrendered itself and its possessions, its members being incorporated into "the New College of St Mary Magdalen."

It was supposed to be the offspring of Pasiphae, the wife of Minos, and a snow-white bull, sent to Minos by Poseidon for sacrifice.

Innocent excommunicated and deposed Ferdinand, king of Naples, by bull of the 11th of September 1489, for refusal to pay the papal dues, and gave his kingdom to Charles VIII.

The golden bull of that emperor, which became thenceforth the charter of its foundation, is still preserved; it is one of the finest specimens of such documents, and contains portraits of Alexius himself and his queen.

In 1188 William secured a papal bull which declared that the Church of Scotland was directly subject only to the see of Rome, thus rejecting the claims to supremacy put forward by the English archbishop. This step was followed by the temporal independence of Scotland, which was one result of the continual poverty of Richard I.

He afterwards reckoned the Leipzig disputation (June-July 1519) and the burning of the papal bull (December 1520) as the beginning of the Reformation.

Many inscriptions and ancient fragments may be seen built into the houses; in front of the Madonna delle Grazie is a bull in red Egyptian granite, and in the Piazza Papiniano the fragments of two Egyptian obelisks erected in A.D.

By a bull of 1264 Urban made the festival, hitherto practically confined to the diocese of Liege, obligatory on the whole Church,' and a new office for the festival was written by Thomas Aquinas himself.

Urban's bull was once more promulgated, at the council of Vienne in 1311, by 1 The pope's decision, so the story goes, was hastened by a miracle.

The only other suggested solution of the problem of isolation in connexion with wireless telegraph stations was given by Anders Bull (Electrician, 1901, 46, p. 573).

The Sforzas having expelled the French from Milan, Cesare returned to Rome in February, his schemes checked for the moment; his father rewarded him for his successes by making him gonfaloniere of the church and conferring many honours on him; he remained in Rome and took part in bull fights and other carnival festivities.

About the same time Martin Luther was in the full course of his protest against the papal supremacy and had already burnt the pope's bull at Worms. The two opponents were girding themselves for the struggle; and what the Church of Rome was losing by the defection of the Augustinian was being counterbalanced by the conversion of the founder of the Society of Jesus.

Anything big enough to make a mature elk bolt was enough to concern him – including a bull elk.

On the 12th of April he was given the custody of the temporalities, on the 15th of April he was elected, and on the 10th of May provided to the see by a papal bull.

Cook, Minos and Minotaur are only different forms of the same personage, representing the sun-god Zeus of the Cretans, who represented the sun as a bull.

It was, however, the first attempt ever made to defy the papal bull.

Up to 1871 the island of Sicily was, according to the bull of Urban II., ecclesiastically dependent on the king, and exempt from the canonical power of the pope.

In reply the pope prepared a bull of excommunication against those who should infringe the prerogatives of the Holy See in this matter.

As we never can hit the bull's eye, we must have literally endless opportunities of aiming at it, so as to get indefinitely nearer the central spot.

It had been extorted from the king by force (per vim et metum), and in the words of the bull the pope said "compositionem hujusmodi reprobamus penitus et damnamus."

After long struggles this was hindered, in France by the bull Romana (Fournier, p. 218), in England by the Bill of Citations, 23 Henry VIII.

Orpheus, in the manner of his death, was considered to personate the god Dionysus, and was thus the representative of the god torn to pieces every year, a ceremony enacted by the Bacchae in the earliest times with a human victim, afterwards with a bull to represent the bull-formed god.

On the 20th of October 1349 Clement published a bull commanding the bishops and inquisitors to stamp out the growing heresy, and in pursuance of the pope's orders numbers of the sectaries perished at the stake or in the cells of the inquisitors and the episcopal justices.

This pastoral was subsequently in 1786 annexed to the resolutions passed by the reforming synod of Pistoia, and was condemned with eighty-four other propositions by papal bull in 1794.