Index of English words, starting with "bu"

(1) - Bulky (a.) Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes.

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

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