bully

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A person who is habitually cruel or overbearing, especially to smaller or weaker people.
2. n. A hired ruffian; a thug.
3. n. A pimp.
4. n. Archaic A fine person.
5. n. Archaic A sweetheart.
6. v. To treat in an overbearing or intimidating manner. See Synonyms at intimidate.
7. v. To make (one's way) aggressively.
8. v. To behave like a bully.
9. v. To force one's way aggressively or by intimidation: "They bully into line at the gas pump” ( Martin Gottfried).
10. adj. Excellent; splendid: did a bully job of persuading the members.
11. interj. Used to express approval: Bully for you!
12. n. Canned or pickled beef. Also called bully beef.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing fellow; a swaggerer; a swashbuckler; one who hectors, browbeats, or domineers.
2. n. A companion; a high-spirited, dashing fellow: a familiar term of address.
3. n. A degraded fellow who protects fallen women and lives on their gains.
4. n. A Cornish name of the shanny. Also bullycod.
5. n. In Tasmania, a species of blenny, Blennius tasmanicus.
6. Blustering; hectoring; ruffianly.
7. Brisk; dashing; jovial; high-spirited.
8. Fine; capital; good: as, a bully horse, picture, etc.
9. To act the bully toward; overbear with bluster or menaces.
10. To make fearful; overawe; daunt; terrorize.
11. Synonyms To browbeat, hector, domineer over.
12. To be loudly arrogant and overbearing; be noisy and quarrelsome.
13. Synonyms To bluster, swagger, vapor.
14. n. In mining, a kind of hammer used in striking the drill or borer. In its simplest form it has a square section at the eye and an octagonal face.
15. n. In field-hockey, the beginning of a game and the starting of each goal. A player from each side stands facing the sideline, and strikes first the ground and then the stick of his opponent alternately three times, after which either player may strike the ball: as soon as it is so struck the ball is in play.
16. n. A foot-ball scrimmage.
17. n. The foreman or boss of a logging-camp.
18. n. Canned or pickled beef. Also attrib., as bully beef.
19. n. The bullace or sloe.
20. n. Same as bully-tree. Also called bully-bay and bully-berry tree.

Wiktionary

1. n. A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
2. n. A hired thug.
3. n. A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
4. n. uncountable Bully beef.
5. v. transitive To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
6. v. transitive To act aggressively towards.
7. adj. Very good; excellent.
8. interj. Well done!

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A noisy, blustering fellow, more insolent than courageous, who threatens, intimidates, or badgers people who are smaller or weaker than he is; an insolent, tyrannical fellow.
2. n. Slang Obs. A brisk, dashing fellow.
3. Pickled or canned beef.
4. adj. Slang Jovial and blustering; dashing.
5. adj. Slang, U.S. Fine; excellent.
6. v. To intimidate or badger with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully{1} toward.
7. v. To act as a bully{1}.
8. interj. Well done! Excellent!

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a hired thug
2. adj. very good
3. v. discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate.
4. v. be bossy towards
5. n. a cruel and brutal fellow