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  • English Word Bulk Definition A projecting part of a building.
  • English Word Bulked Definition of Bulk
  • English Word Bulker Definition A person employed to ascertain the bulk or size of goods, in order to fix the amount of freight or dues payable on them.
  • English Word Bulkhead Definition A partition in a vessel, to separate apartments on the same deck.
  • English Word Bulkhead Definition A structure of wood or stone, to resist the pressure of earth or water; a partition wall or structure, as in a mine; the limiting wall along a water front.
  • English Word Bulkiness Definition Greatness in bulk; size.
  • English Word Bulking Definition of Bulk
  • English Word Bulky Definition Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.
  • English Word Bull Definition The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
  • English Word Bull Definition One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
  • English Word Bull Definition Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
  • English Word Bull Definition A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
  • English Word Bull Definition 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.
  • English Word Bull Definition Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
  • English Word Bull Definition To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
  • English Word Bull Definition 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.
  • English Word Bull Definition A seal. See Bulla.
  • English Word Bull Definition 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.
  • English Word Bull Definition 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.
  • English Word Bull brier Definition 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.
  • English Word Bull fly Definition Alt. of Bullfly
  • English Word Bull terrier Definition A breed of dogs obtained by crossing the bulldog and the terrier.
  • English Word Bull trout Definition In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.
  • English Word Bull trout Definition Salvelinus malma of California and Oregon; -- called also Dolly Varden trout and red-spotted trout.
  • English Word Bull trout Definition The huso or salmon of the Danube.
  • English Word Bull's-eye Definition A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
  • English Word Bull's-eye Definition A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.
  • English Word Bull's-eye Definition A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.
  • English Word Bull's-eye Definition A circular or oval opening for air or light.
  • English Word Bull's-eye Definition A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.