bovine male animal, from Old English bula a bull, a steer, or Old Norse boli bull, both from Proto-Germanic *bullon- (cf. Middle Dutch bulle, Dutch bul, German Bulle), perhaps from a Germanic verbal stem meaning to roar, which survives in some German dialects and perhaps in the first element of boulder (q.v.).
Andrew Jackson - 7th president of the US; successfully defended New Orleans from the British in 1815; expanded the power of the presidency (1767-1845). Old Hickory, Jackson.
BEARD, ANDREW JACKSON (1814â1866). Andrew Jackson Beard, son of William and Martha (Harris) Beard, was born in Missouri on May 29, 1814. He moved to Liverpool, Texas, with his parents in 1831, and shortly thereafter to Big Creek, where he later bought land from his uncle, Abner Harris, an Old Three Hundred colonist.