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A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projcted, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.

The European bullfinch. Monk bat (Zoöl.), a South American and West Indian bat (Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves. -- Monk bird(Zoöl.), the friar bird. -- Monk seal (Zoöl.), a species of seal (Monachus albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and t…

A bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.]

A suffix used to form diminutives; as, bullock, hillock.

crifice; to present in prayer or devotion; -- often with up. Thou shalt offer every day a bullock for a sin offering for atonement. Ex. xxix. 36. A holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices. 1 Pet. ii. 5.

The European bullfinch. [Prov.Eng.]

Capability of being ordained or appointed. [Obs.] Bp. Bull.

figured as a mummy wearing the royal cap of Upper Egypt, and was symbolized by the sacred bull, called Apis. Cf. Serapis. -- O*sir"i*an, a.

The part of a target which is beyond the circles surrounding the bull's-eye.

in preaching. And for a villain's quick conversion A pillory can outpreach a parson. Trumbull.

Pastorate. Bp. Bull.

A bullet; a ball for firearms. [Obs.] Bacon. As swift as a pellet out of a gun. Chaucer. Pellet molding (Arch.), a narrow band ornamented with smalt, flat disks.

r, is, used, it is called mediate. Center of percussion. See under Center. -- Percussion bullet, a bullet containing a substance which is exploded by percussion; an explosive bullet. -- Percussion cap, a small copper cap or cup, containing fulminating powder, and used with a percussion lock to explode gunpowder. --…

A horseman armed with a lance, who in a bullfight receives the first attack of the bull, and excites him by picking him without attempting to kill him.

The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] "The very pin of his heart cleft." Shak.

lanoleucus). It is whitish, covered with brown blotches having black margins. Called also bull snake. The Western pine snake (P. Sayi) is chestnut-brown, mottled with black and orange. -- Pine tree (Bot.), a tree of the genus Pinus; pine. -- Pine-tree money, money coined in Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, a…

The sound made by a bullet in striking a solid object or in passing through the air.

The penis; -- so called in some animals, as the bull. Shak.

t in a new country; a colony. While these plantations were forming in Connecticut. B. Trumbull.

of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree. The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. G. Bentham. are in bold format, like col…