[f. BULL sb.1]
† 1. a. trans. Said of a bull: To gender with (the cow). b. intr. Of the cow: To take the bull, to desire the bull. Also To go a bulling. Obs.
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. cix. (1495), 850. Kene lowe whan they be a bullynge.
1523. Fitzherb., Husb., § 66. The damme of the calfe shall bull agayne.
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 224. Kine commonly … seeke the fellow, and goe a bulling again.
1659. Howell, Lex. Tetraglotton, He that bulls the Cow must keep the Calf.
1675. Cotton, Poet. Wks. (1765), 182. Unless I had a Spell, To bull my Cow invisible.
1736. in Bailey.
2. Stock-Exchange. To try to raise the price of (stocks, etc.); to speculate for the rise.
a. 1842. [see BEAR v.2].
c. 1880. Besant & Rice, Harp & Crown, xix. 196. Men who bull and bear the stock market.
1881. Chicago Times, 4 June. If we succeed in bulling silver we shall also succeed in bearing gold to the same extent.
