Bull

1. v. i. 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.
2. n. 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. n. One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
4. n. Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
5. n. A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
6. n. 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. a. Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
8. v. i. To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
9. v. t. 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. v. i. A seal. See Bulla.
11. 1v. i. 1 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.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.