adj. frightened into submission or compliance.
Syn. -- browbeaten, cowed, hangdog, intimidated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. OE. bullyon a hook used for fastening the dress, a button, stud, an embossed ornament of various kinds, e. g., on the cover of a book, on bridles or poitrels, for purses, for breeches and doublets, LL. bullio the swelling of boiling water, a mass of gold or silver, fr. L. bulla boss, stud, bubble (see Bull an edict), or perh. corrupted fr. F. billon base coin, LL. billio bullion. Cf. Billon, Billet a stick. ] 1. Uncoined gold or silver in the mass. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Properly, the precious metals are called bullion, when smelted and not perfectly refined, or when refined, but in bars, ingots or in any form uncoined, as in plate. The word is often often used to denote gold and silver, both coined and uncoined, when reckoned by weight and in mass, including especially foreign, or uncurrent, coin. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Base or uncurrent coin. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

And those which eld's strict doom did disallow,
And damm for bullion, go for current now. Sylvester. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Showy metallic ornament, as of gold, silver, or copper, on bridles, saddles, etc. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

The clasps and bullions were worth a thousand pound. Skelton. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Heavy twisted fringe, made of fine gold or silver wire and used for epaulets; also, any heavy twisted fringe whose cords are prominent. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An advocate for a metallic currency, or a paper currency always convertible into gold. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ Cf. bully, n. & v., and rag to scold, rail. Cf. Ballarag. ] To intimidate by bullying; to rally contemptuously; to badger. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Partaking of the nature of a bull, or a blunder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Let me inform you, a toothless satire is as improper as a toothed sleek stone, and as bullish. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. bulliste. See Bull an edict. ] A writer or drawer up of papal bulls. [ R. ] Harmar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. bullire, bullitum, to boil. See Boil, v. i. ] The action of boiling; boiling. [ Obs. ] See Ebullition. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ Pref. dé- + L. bullire to boil. ] To boil over. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Debulliate. ] A bubbling or boiling over. [ Obs. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To boil or bubble up. [ Obs. ] Prynne.

{ } n. A boiling up or over; effervescence. Cudworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. ebulliens, -entis, p. pr. of ebullire to boil up, bubble up; e out, from + bullire to boil. See 1st Boil. ] Boiling up or over; hence, manifesting exhilaration or excitement, as of feeling; effervescing. “Ebullient with subtlety.” De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ebullient enthusiasm of the French. Carlyle. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ebullire to boil up + -scope. ] (Phys. Chem.) An instrument for observing the boiling point of liquids, especially for determining the alcoholic strength of a mixture by the temperature at which it boils. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ébullition, L. ebullitio, fr. ebullire. See Ebullient. ] 1. A boiling or bubbling up of a liquid; the motion produced in a liquid by its rapid conversion into vapor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Effervescence occasioned by fermentation or by any other process which causes the liberation of a gas or an aëriform fluid, as in the mixture of an acid with a carbonated alkali. [ Formerly written bullition. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A sudden burst or violent display; an outburst; as, an ebullition of anger or ill temper. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of boiling up or effervescing. [ R. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]