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from India, but now found in most of the warmer countries of the eastern continent. It is larger and less docile than the common ox, and is fond of marshy places and rivers.

rball. The head of the male is covered with numerous elongated feathers, and thus appears large. Called also bufflehead.

Having a large head, like a buffalo; dull; stupid; blundering. [Obs.] So fell this buffle-headed giant. Gayton.

One who has a large head; a heavy, stupid fellow. [Obs.] What makes you stare so, bufflehead Plautus (trans. 1694).

(Anat.) A small hollow bulb, such as an enlargement in a small vessel or tube.

A small bulb, either produced on a larger bulb, or on some aërial part of a plant, as in the axils of leaves in the tiger lily, or replacing the flowers in some kinds of onion.

A genus of land snails having an elongated spiral shell, often of large size. The species are numerous ingabundant in tropical America.

The main mass or body; the largest or principal portion; the majority; as, the bulk of a debt. The bulk of the people must labor, Burke told them, "to obtain what by labor can be obtained." J. Morley.

Of great bulk or dimensions; of great size; large; thick; massive; as, bulky volumes. A bulky digest of the revenue laws. Hawthorne.

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

of Smilax (S. Pseudo-China) growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; -- called also bamboo brier and China brier.

Any large fly troublesome to cattle, as the gadflies and breeze flies.

In England, a large salmon trout of several species, as Salmo trutta and S. Cambricus, which ascend rivers; -- called also sea trout.

Having a large face.

A very large species of frog (Rana Catesbiana), found in North America; -- so named from its loud bellowing in spring.

A kind of large rush, growing in wet land or in water.

A large bee of the genus Bombus, sometimes called humblebee; -- so named from its sound.

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

o swell out into a bunch or protuberance; to be protuberant or round. Bunching out into a large round knob at one end. Woodward.

The large stopper of the orifice in the bilge of a cask.