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Swollen. [Obs.]

The lyre bird.

A nail with a round head and short shank, tinned and lacquered.

Obs.] A ship before Greenwich . . . shot off her ordnance, one piece being charged with a bullet of stone. Stow.

Capable of resisting the force of a bullet. Bullet tree. See Bully tree. -- Bullet wood, the wood of the bullet tree.

A periodical publication, especially one containing the proceeding of a society. Bulletin board, a board on which announcements are put, particularly at newsrooms, newspaper offices, etc.

Having a large face.

See Bullfight. [Obs.]

A barbarous sport, of great antiquity, in which men torment, and fight with, a bull or bulls in an arena, for public amusement, -- still popular in Spain. -- Bull"fight`er (, n.

A bird of the genus Pyrrhula and other related genera, especially the P. vulgaris or rubicilla, a bird of Europe allied to the grosbeak, having the breast, cheeks, and neck, red.

A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

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

In America, several species of Amiurus; -- called also catfish, horned pout, and bullpout.

Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.

se or uncurrent coin. [Obs.] And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester.

An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [Low]

Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder. Let me inform you, a toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleek stone, and as bullish. Milton.

A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition. Bacon.