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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).

oud noise it makes while feeding on the wing, in the evening. -- Bull calf. (a) A stupid fellow. -- Bull mackerel (Zoöl.), the chub mackerel. -- Bull pump (Mining), a direct single-acting pumping engine, in which the steam cylinder is placed above the pump. -- Bull snake (Zoöl.), the pine snake of the United States…

roduce terror, as in children or persons of weak mind; a bugbear. And being an ill-looked fellow, he has a pension from the church wardens for being bullbeggar to all the forward children in the parish. Mountfort (1691).

A stupid fellow; a lubber. [Colloq.] Jonson.

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

An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. [Slang, U.S.]

An awkward, heavy country fellow; a clown; a country lout. "Bashful country bumpkins." W. Irving.

Like a butcher; without compunction; savage; bloody; inhuman; fell. "The victim of a butcherly murder." D. Webster. What stratagems, how fell, how butcherly, This deadly quarrel daily doth beget! Shak.

A mark to be shot at; a target. Sir W. Scott. The groom his fellow groom at butts defies, And bends his bow, and levels with his eyes. Dryden.

ring sound; to speak with a low, humming voice. Like a wasp is buzzed, and stung him. Longfellow. However these disturbers of our peace Buzz in the people's ears. Shak.

he bolero. [Sometimes in English spelled cachuca (.] The orchestra plays the cachucha. Logfellow.

A lowbred, presuming person; a mean, vulgar fellow. [Cant] Thackeray.

mented with feathers. Smoked the calumet, the Peace pipe, As a signal to the nations. Lowgfellow.

r skins, used by savages. A birch canoe, with paddles, rising, falling, on the water. Longfellow.

ection; an embracing, or touching, with tenderness. Wooed her with his soft caresses. Langfellow. He exerted himself to win by indulgence and caresses the hearts of all who were under his command. Macaulay.

ic, as of a song. I heard the bells on Christmans Day Their old, familiar carol play. Longfellow.

A base fellow; a rogue; a cheat. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Fit to be felled. [Obs.] Eyelyn.

The space or storerooms of a cellar; a cellar. Sir W. Scott. You hear this fellow in the cellarage. Shak.