61. Bulls and Bullfighting
See also 16. ANIMALS .
- aficionado
- an avid and informed devotee of bullflghting; now used of devotees of any sport, activity, or art.
- bulldogging
- Western U.S. the seizing of a calf or steer by the horns and throwing it off its feet by twisting the head. — bulldogger , n.
- picador
- a mounted bullfighter who jabs the bull between the shoulders with a lance to enrage it.
- tauricide
- 1. the killing of a bull.
- 2. the killer of a bull.
- taurobolium
- a part of an ancient religious rite involving baptism in the blood of a sacrificed bull. Also tauroboly .
- taurokathapsia
- an ancient Cretan sport for both sexes involving grasping the horns of a bull and tumbling over him; bull-leaping.
- tauromachy, tauromaquia
- 1. the art or technique of bullflghting.
- 2. a bullfight. — tauromachian, tauromachic , adj.
- taurophobia
- an abnormal fear of bulls.
- Taurus
- 1. the bull, second of the zodiaeal eonstellations.
- 2. the bull, second of the astrological signs.
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