the male of any species of cattle (bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.-one who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.-taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.-a constellation of the zodiac between aries and gemini. it contains the pleiades.-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.-of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.-to be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.-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.-a seal. see bulla.-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.-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.