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below the opening of the ear in the skulls of many animals; as, the tympanic or auditory bulla.

A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.

Pertaining to, or used in, papal bulls. Fry. Bullantic letters, Gothic letters used in papal bulls.

A place for boiling or preparating salt; a boilery. Crabb. And certain salt fats or bullaries. Bills in Chancery.

Appearing as if blistered; inflated; puckered. Bullate leaf (Bot.), a leaf, the membranous part of which rises between the veins puckered elevations convex on one side and concave on the other.

An inflammatory swelling or sore; a bulla, pustule, or blister. Blotches and blains must all his flesh emboss. Milton.

A large vesicle or bulla, usually containing a serous fluid; a blister; a bubble, as in water, glass, etc. Arsenic abounds with air blebs. Kirwan.

A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.

A seal. See Bulla.

A fresh-water fish of the United States (Semotilus bullaris); - - called also silver chub, and Shiner. The name is also applied to other allied species.

of several other species of Prunus; also, the tree itself, usually called plum tree. The bullace, the damson, and the numerous varieties of plum, of our gardens, although growing into thornless trees, are believed to be varieties of the blackthorn, produced by long cultivation. G. Bentham. are in bold format, like col…

An American chub (Semotilus bullaris); the fallfish.

as that of the Foetidia Mauritiana of the Mauritius, and that of the South African Ocotea bullata.