(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.
(n.) One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
(n.) Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
(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.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
(v. i.) To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
(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.
(v. i.) A seal. See Bulla.
(v. i.) 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.
(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.
Example Sentences:
(1) Richard Bull Woodbridge, Suffolk • Why does Britain need Chinese money to build a new atomic generator ( Letters , 20 October)?
(2) Michael Schumacher’s manager hopes F1 champion ‘will be here again one day’ Read more Last year, Red Bull were frustrated by Mercedes, Ferrari and Honda as they desperately looked for a new engine supplier.
(3) This procedure can quickly provide acrosome-reacted bull sperm for use with various in vitro fertilization procedures and for assessment of male fertility.
(4) The total glutathione peroxidase activity was unrelated to studied variables of bull semen.
(5) I want to follow the west bank of the river south for some 100 miles to a bluff overlooking the river, where Sitting Bull is buried – and then, in the evening, to return to Bismarck.
(6) Two ejaculates were harvested by electroejaculation on each of 3 d per week for 14 wk from 14, 12- to 24-mo-old Holstein bulls.
(7) Three bulls selected for high faecal worm egg counts and three bulls selected for low faecal worm egg counts were mated to Africander-Hereford cross cows.
(8) Twenty-three cases (72%) were found in young bulls aged 18 months or less.
(9) Six Holstein (light-muscled type) and six Belgian Blue bulls (double-muscled type) were fed a finishing diet.
(10) The bull's eye method showed redistribution in 5 of 19 patients (26%) in Group B, 5 of 19 (26%) with % delta Th < or = 0 and 2 of 9 (22%) with IVSE < or = 0.
(11) Basic peptides (bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor, bull seminal isoinhibitors of trypsin, arginine vasopressin and adamantylamide-alanylisoglutamine) were analysed with a cationic ITP system at acidic pH.
(12) The simple method of retrograde flushing of spermatozoa from the epididymal cauda of slaughter bulls yielded an average of 2 x 10(9) spermatozoa from one cauda.
(13) Out of the 2550 ejaculates taken from 42 breeding bulls within 12 months, 685, i.e.
(14) Group A Villarreal, Borussia Mönchengladbach, FC Zurich, Apollon Limassol Group B FC Copenhagen, Brugge, Torino, HJK Helsinki Group C Tottenham Hotspur , Besiktas, Partizan Belgrade, Asteras Tripoli Group D Red Bull Salzburg, Celtic , Dinamo Zagreb, FC Astra Group E PSV, Panathinaikos, Estoril Praia, Dynamo Moscow Group F Internazionale, Dnipro, St Etienne, FK Karabakh Group G Sevilla, Standard Liège, Feyenoord, Rijeka Group H Lille, Wolfsburg, Everton , Krasnodar Group I Napoli, Sparta Prague, Young Boys, Slovan Bratislava Group J Dynamo Kyiv, Steaua Bucharest, Rio Ave, AaB Group K Fiorentina, PAOK, Guingamp, Dinamo Minsk Group L Metalist Kharkiv, Trabzonspor, Legia Warsaw, Lokeren
(15) Single atrial myocytes were enzymatically isolated from the bull-frog as previously described (Hume & Giles, 1981), and patch-clamp techniques were used in an attempt to identify and separate two inwardly rectifying K+ channels in this tissue.
(16) We wish Thierry all the best for his future.” New England Revolution ended the Red Bulls’ playoff run on Saturday , and Henry said he had decided not to return for another season.
(17) Acinar cells, which are seromucous in nature, contain secretory granules that often contain a perfect "bull's eye" inclusion (or some variant of this configuration) suspended in a dense matrix.
(18) Five of the bulls were used in homospermic insemination studies.
(19) Among Hereford bulls, body weights were similar (P greater than .10) in all control and relocated bulls by the end of the study, except that MH bulls moved to TX had lower body weights (P less than .01).
(20) Twenty bulls were inoculated with bluetongue virus (BTV) to study the frequency, duration and pathogenesis of seminal shedding of the virus.
Bulldog
Definition:
(n.) A variety of dog, of remarkable ferocity, courage, and tenacity of grip; -- so named, probably, from being formerly employed in baiting bulls.
(n.) A refractory material used as a furnace lining, obtained by calcining the cinder or slag from the puddling furnace of a rolling mill.
(a.) Characteristic of, or like, a bulldog; stubborn; as, bulldog courage; bulldog tenacity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The MP for Romford urged Cameron to show "bulldog spirit" at the talks.
(2) In each case a small bulldog clamp was applied to the renal artery for less than 30 minutes.
(3) He is the Princess Di of the political world …" Or of Margaret Thatcher 's trusty bulldog Bernard Ingham: "Brick-red of face, beetling of brow, seemingly built to withstand hurricanes, Sir Bernard resembled a half-timbered bomb shelter."
(4) The chief justice is pursuing him with bulldog determination and the letter of the law is on his side.
(5) The former MEP called for the British "bulldog confidence" to come to the fore to push for the completion of the single market.
(6) Duplication of a kidney and ureter in an 18-month-old male English Bulldog was demonstrated radiographically and was confirmed surgically.
(7) Unilateral ataxia of the head and trunk and right-sided paralysis of the trigeminal, facial, and hypoglossal nerves were the major neurologic dysfunctions in a nine-year-old male French bulldog.
(8) They rallied to make the top eight and were outstanding last week to beat the Western Bulldogs in their elimination final.
(9) Rosie Redknapp chose to give his his Monaco bank account the password Rosie47 after his beloved pet bulldog.
(10) The Conservative mayor of London, Boris Johnson , said the coalition looked like "a kind of cross between a bulldog and a chihuahua".
(11) Redknapp told the court that when asked to chose a password for the account, he had opted for Rosie47, in honour of his pet bulldog and the year of his birth.
(12) You battered the Canterbury Bulldogs to win the World Club Challenge in February - was that the highlight of your career so far?
(13) We go out on the field together and it’s 26 blokes knocking seven shades out of each other.” The 27-year-old captained his Batley Bulldogs side against their local rivals, the Dewsbury Rams, on Sunday.
(14) Spina bifida was diagnosed in four English Bulldogs and one Collie dog.
(15) Dogs of the Poodle, Pug, German Shepherd Dog, Cocker Spaniel, Bulldog, Schnauzer, Doberman Pinscher breeds, of mixed breeding, and of terrier breeds other than the 2 aforementioned were not found to have a higher prevalence, when compared with the general hospital population.
(16) In order to test whether the use of vascular rings to assess residual vascular function may be a better method, rabbit thoracic aortas were occluded by five types of clamps: a Fogarty softjaw bulldog, a Fogarty Hydragrip, a 6-inch Satinsky clamp, an Edslab bulldog, and a silicone vessel band.
(17) It is a model of temporary intestinal ischemia and consists of occluding both superior mesenteric vessels with a bulldog clamp for varying periods of time.
(18) Even by the seldom conventional standards of the professional football world, the saga of bonuses, offshore bank accounts and a beloved bulldog that has unfolded in the sober confines of Southwark crown court over the last three weeks has been a remarkable one.
(19) Single right coronary artery (CA) associated with pulmonic stenosis was found in 3 English Bulldogs and a Boxer, suggesting a genetic predisposition for the associated anomalies.
(20) Did I skulk in dodgy pubs with bull-necked men with shaved heads and bulldogs?