BULL-FIGHT, a favourite amusement among the Spaniards and Portuguese, consisting in a kind of combat between an armed man or torreador and a wild bull, either on foot or on horseback. This sport the Spaniards received from the Moors, among whom it was celebrated with great pomp. Some think that the Moors might have received the custom from the Romans, and the latter from the Greeks. Dr Plot is of opinion that the Ταυρομαχία ἡμέραι among the Thessalians, who first instituted this game, and of whom Julius Cæsar learned and brought it to Rome, were the origin both of the Spanish and Portuguese bull-fighting, and of the English bull-running. See SPAIN.