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A bull was also the name of false hair formerly much worn by women. To look like bull beef, or as bluff as bull beef; to look fierce or surly. Town bull, a great wh.o.r.e-master.

BULL. A crown piece. A half bull; half a crown.

BULL BEGGAR, or BULLY BEGGAR. An imaginary being with which children are threatened by servants and nurses, like raw head and b.l.o.o.d.y bones.

BULL CALF. A great hulkey or clumsy fellow. See HULKEY.

BULL CHIN. A fat chubby child.

BULL DOGS. Pistols.

BULL HANKERS. Persons who over-drive bulls, or frequent bull baits.

BULL'S EYE. A crown-piece.

BULL'S FEATHER. A horn: he wears the bull's feather; he is a cuckold.

TO BULLOCK. To hector, bounce, or bully.

BULLY. A cowardly fellow, who gives himself airs of great bravery. A bully huff cap; a hector. See HECTOR.

BULLY BACK. A bully to a bawdy-house; one who is kept in pay, to oblige the frequenters of the house to submit to the impositions of the mother abbess, or bawd; and who also sometimes pretends to be the husband of one of the ladies, and under that pretence extorts money from greenhorns, or ignorant young men, whom he finds with her.

See GREENHORN.

BULLY c.o.c.k. One who foments quarrels in order to rob the persons quarrelling.

BULLY RUFFIANS. Highwaymen who attack pa.s.sengers with paths and imprecations.

BULLY TRAP. A brave man with a mild or effeminate appearance, by whom bullies are frequently taken in.

b.u.m. the breech, or backside.

TO b.u.m. To arrest a debtor. The gill b.u.mmed the swell for a thimble; the tradesman arrested the gentleman for a watch.

b.u.m TRAP. A sheriff's officer who arrests debtors.

Ware hawke! the b.u.m traps are fly to our panney; keep a good look out, the bailiffs know where our house is situated.

b.u.m BAILIFF. A sheriff's officer, who arrests debtors; so called perhaps from following his prey, and being at their b.u.ms, or, as the vulgar phrase is, hard at their a-ses.

Blackstone says, it is a corruption of bound bailiff, from their being obliged to give bond for their good behaviour.

b.u.m BRUSHER. A schoolmaster.

b.u.m BOAT. A boat attending s.h.i.+ps to retail greens, drams, &c. commonly rowed by a woman; a kind of floating chandler's shop,

b.u.m FODDER. Soft paper for the necessary house or torchecul.

b.u.mFIDDLE. The backside, the breech. See ARS MUSICA.

b.u.mBO. Brandy, water, and sugar; also the negro name for the private parts of a woman.