bully

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A blustering, quarrelsome, overbearing fellow; a swaggerer; a swashbuckler; one who hectors, browbeats, or domineers.
• noun A companion; a high-spirited, dashing fellow: a familiar term of address.
• noun A degraded fellow who protects fallen women and lives on their gains.
• noun A Cornish name of the shanny. Also bullycod.
• noun In Tasmania, a species of blenny, Blennius tasmanicus.
• Blustering; hectoring; ruffianly.
• Brisk; dashing; jovial; high-spirited.
• Fine; capital; good: as, a bully horse, picture, etc.
• To act the bully toward; overbear with bluster or menaces.
• To make fearful; overawe; daunt; terrorize.
• Synonyms To browbeat, hector, domineer over.
• To be loudly arrogant and overbearing; be noisy and quarrelsome.
• Synonyms To bluster, swagger, vapor.
• noun 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.
• noun Canned or pickled beef. Also attrib., as bully beef.
• noun 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.
• noun A foot-ball scrimmage.
• noun The foreman or boss of a logging-camp.
• noun The bullace or sloe.
• noun Same as bully-tree. Also called bully-bay and bully-berry tree.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• Pickled or canned beef.
• noun 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.
• noun Slang Obs. A brisk, dashing fellow.
• adjective Slang Jovial and blustering; dashing.
• adjective Slang, U.S. Fine; excellent.
• transitive verb To intimidate or badger with threats and by an overbearing, swaggering demeanor; to act the part of a bully{1} toward.
• interjection Well done! Excellent!
• intransitive verb To act as a bully{1}.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A person who is cruel to others, especially those who are weaker or have less power.
• noun A hired thug.
• noun A prostitute’s minder; a pimp.
• noun uncountable Bully beef.
• verb transitive To intimidate (someone) as a bully.
• verb transitive To act aggressively towards.
• adjective Very good; excellent.
• interjection Well done!

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a hired thug
• adjective very good
• verb discourage or frighten with threats or a domineering manner; intimidate
• verb be bossy towards
• noun a cruel and brutal fellow