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A young bull, or any male of the ox kind. Take thy father's young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old. Judges vi. 25.

See Bull's-eye, 3.

A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).

See Bullhead, 1 (b).

Knapweed. Prior.

See Bishop's-weed.

than courageous; one who is threatening and quarrelsome; an insolent, tyrannical fellow. Bullies seldom execute the threats they deal in. Palmerston.

The name of several West Indian trees of the order Sapotaceæ, as Dipholis nigra and species of Sapota and Mimusops. Most of them yield a substance closely resembling gutta-percha.

Pickled or canned beef.

Same as Bullirag.

A bully. [Slang Obs.] Shak.

To boil over. [Obs.]

A bubbling or boiling over. [Obs.] Bailey.

A kind of manstopping bullet; -- so named from Dumdum, in India, where bullets are manufactured for the Indian army.

To boil or bubble up. [Obs.] Prynne.

A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth.

up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. "Ebullient with subtlety." De Quincey. The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle.

An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils.

aëriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [Formerly written bullition.]

The act of boiling up or effervescing. [R.] Sir H. Wotton.