"Bull" is a word in LAW AND LEGAL, ENGLISH

In eccleslastlcal law. An lnstru-ment granted by the pope of Rome, and sealed with a seal of lead, containing some decree, commandment, or other public act, emanating from the pontiff. Bull, in this sense, corresponds with edict or letters pat-ent from other governments. Cowell; 4 Bl. Comm. 110; 4 Steph. Comm. 177, 179

Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.

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 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.

To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.

Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large;
fierce.

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.

The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male
of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.

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.

One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or
action.

A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It
contains the Pleiades.