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The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

A native of Gascony; a boaster; a bully. See Gasconade.

Gigantic. [Obs.] Bullokar.

rn; to brighten. Let oft good humor, mild and gay, Gild the calm evening of your day. Trumbull.

t of arms of Lombardy, the first money lenders in London having been Lombards. -- Golden bull. See under Bull, an edict. -- Golden chain (Bot.), the shrub Cytisus Laburnum, so named from its long clusters of yellow blossoms. -- Golden club (Bot.), an aquatic plant (Orontium aquaticum), bearing a thick spike of minut…

To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing; as, the bullet grazed the wall.

A cart with wooden wheels, drawn by bullocks. [Bengal] Malcom.

A bully; a bravo; a ruffian; an assassin. [Obs.] Milton.

actors; a noose. Shak. No man e'er felt the halter draw With good opinion of the law. Trumbull.

A bully; a blustering, turbulent, insolent, fellow; one who vexes or provokes.

The disposition or the practice of a hector; a bullying. [R.]

andard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a church, etc.; heresy. Bp. Bull.

rn poppy, under Horn. -- Horned pout (Zoöl.), an American fresh-water siluroid fish; the bullpout. -- Horned rattler (Zoöl.), a species of rattlesnake (Crotalus cerastes), inhabiting the dry, sandy plains, from California to Mexico. It has a pair of triangular horns between the eyes; -- called also sidewinder. -- Ho…

Giving exhortation; advisory; exhortative. Bullokar.

arge salmon (Salmo, or Salvelinus, hucho) inhabiting the Danube; -- called also huso, and bull trout.

To treat with insolence and arrogance; to chide or rebuke with insolence; to hector; to bully. You must not presume to huff us. Echard.

A blusterer; a bully. [Obs.] -- a.

A bully; a blusterer. Hudibras.

vessel, exclusive of her masts, yards, sails, and rigging. Deep in their hulls our deadly bullets light. Dryden. Hull down, said of a ship so distant that her hull is concealed by the convexity of the sea.

, with a lamp for heating it, and an inclosed thermometer for showing the temperature of ebullition.