These are the meanings of the letters LUBOLN when you unscramble them.
- Boll (n.)
A Scotch measure, formerly in use: for wheat and beans it contained four Winchester bushels; for oats, barley, and potatoes, six bushels. A boll of meal is 140 lbs. avoirdupois. Also, a measure for salt of two bushels.
- Boll (n.)
The pod or capsule of a plant, as of flax or cotton; a pericarp of a globular form.
- Boll (v. i.)
To form a boll or seed vessel; to go to seed.
- Bull (a.)
Of or pertaining to a bull; resembling a bull; male; large; fierce.
- Bull (n.)
A constellation of the zodiac between Aries and Gemini. It contains the Pleiades.
- Bull (n.)
One who operates in expectation of a rise in the price of stocks, or in order to effect such a rise. See 4th Bear, n., 5.
- Bull (n.)
One who, or that which, resembles a bull in character or action.
- Bull (n.)
Taurus, the second of the twelve signs of the zodiac.
- Bull (n.)
The male of any species of cattle (Bovidae); hence, the male of any large quadruped, as the elephant; also, the male of the whale.
- Bull (v. i.)
A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called, perhaps, from the apparent incongruity between the dictatorial nature of the pope's bulls and his professions of humility.
- Bull (v. i.)
A letter, edict, or respect, of the pope, written in Gothic characters on rough parchment, sealed with a bulla, and dated \"a die Incarnationis,\" i. e., \"from the day of the Incarnation.\" See Apostolical brief, under Brief.
- Bull (v. i.)
A seal. See Bulla.
- Bull (v. i.)
To be in heat; to manifest sexual desire as cows do.
- Bull (v. t.)
To endeavor to raise the market price of; as, to bull railroad bonds; to bull stocks; to bull Lake Shore; to endeavor to raise prices in; as, to bull the market. See 1st Bull, n., 4.
- Null (a.)
Of no legal or binding force or validity; of no efficacy; invalid; void; nugatory; useless.
- Null (n.)
One of the beads in nulled work.
- Null (n.)
Something that has no force or meaning.
- Null (n.)
That which has no value; a cipher; zero.
- Null (v. t.)
To annul.