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Bully: Definition and part of speech

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Bully

  1. a. Fine; excellent; as, a bully horse.
  2. n. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
  3. n. A brisk, dashing fellow.
  4. a. Jovial and blustering; dashing.

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.

Bully tree: Definition and part of speech

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Bully tree

  1. The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceae, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

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.

Bull’s-eye: Definition and part of speech

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Bull’s-eye

  1. n. A small and thick old-fashioned watch.
  2. n. A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.
  3. n. A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.
  4. n. A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship’s side, etc., to let in light.
  5. n. A circular or oval opening for air or light.
  6. n. A lantern, with a thick glass lens on one side for concentrating the light on any object; also, the lens itself.
  7. n. Aldebaran, a bright star in the eye of Taurus or the Bull.
  8. n. The center of a target.
  9. n. A thick knob or protuberance left on glass by the end of the pipe through which it was blown.
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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.