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Bull"head`ed (bl"hd`d), a. Having a head like that of a bull. Fig.: Headstrong; obstinate; dogged.

Bul"lion (bl"yn), n. [Cf. OE. bullyon a hook used for fastening the dress, a button, stud, an embossed ornament of various kinds, e. g., on the cover of a book, on bridles or poitrels, for purses, for breeches and doublets, LL. bullio the swelling of boiling water, a mass of gold or silver, fr. L. bulla boss, stud, bubble (see Bull an edict), or perh. corrupted fr. F. billon base coin, LL. billio bullion. Cf. Billon, Billet a stick.] 1. Uncoined gold or silver in the mass.

Properly, the precious metals are called bullion, when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots or in any form uncoined, as in plate. The word is often often used to denote gold and silver, both coined and uncoined, when reckoned by weight and in mass, including especially foreign, or uncurrent, coin.

2. Base or uncurrent coin. [Obs.]

And those which eld's strict doom did disallow, And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester.

3. Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [Obs.]

The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound. Skelton.

4. Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent.

Bul"lion*ist, n. An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold.

Bul"li*rag (&?;), v. t. [Cf. bully,n.& v., and rag to scold, rail. Cf. Ballarag.] To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger.

Bull"ish (&?;), a. 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.

Bull"ist, n. [F. bulliste. See Bull an edict.] A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [R.] Harmar.

Bul*li"tion (&?;), n. [L. bullire, bullitum, to boil. See Boil, v. i.] The action of boiling; boiling. [Obs.] See Ebullition. Bacon.

Bull"-necked` (&?;), a. Having a short and thick neck like that of a bull. Sir W. Scott.

Bul"lock (&?;), n. [AS. bulluc a young bull. See Bull.] 1. 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.

2. An ox, steer, or stag.

Bul"lock, v. t. To bully. [Obs.]

She shan't think to bullock and domineer over me. Foote.

Bul"lock's-eye` (&?;), n. See Bull's- eye, 3.

||Bul"lon (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) A West Indian fish (Scarus Croicensis).

Bull"pout` (&?;), n. (Zoöl.) See Bullhead, 1 (b).

Bull's"-eye` (&?;), n. 1. (Naut.) A small circular or oval wooden block without sheaves, having a groove around it and a hole through it, used for connecting rigging.

2. A small round cloud, with a ruddy center, supposed by sailors to portend a storm.

3. A small thick disk of glass inserted in a deck, roof, floor, ship's side, etc., to let in light.

4. A circular or oval opening for air or light.