mull

9 definitions found

mull - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Mull \Mull\, v. i.
     To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually
     with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem. [Colloq.
     U.S.]
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  Mull \Mull\, n.
     An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or
     the peelings and refuse of the larger.
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  Mull \Mull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mulled (m[u^]ld); p. pr. &
     vb. n. Mulling.] [From mulled, for mold, taken as a p. p.;
     OE. mold-ale funeral ale or banquet. See Mold soil.]
     1. To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull
        wine.
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              New cider, mulled with ginger warm.   --Gay.
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     2. To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. --Shak.
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  Mull \Mull\ (m[u^]l), n. [Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See
     Muslin.]
     A thin, soft kind of muslin.
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  Mull \Mull\, n. [Icel. m[=u]li a snout, muzzle, projecting crag;
     or cf. Ir. & Gael. meall a heap of earth, a mound, a hill or
     eminence, W. moel. Cf. Mouth.]
     1. A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre. [Scot.]
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     2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
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  Mull \Mull\, n. [Prob. akin to mold. [root]108. See Mold.]
     Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] --Gower.
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  Mull \Mull\, v. t. [OE. mullen. See 2d Muller.]
     To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]
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mull - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  mull
      n 1: a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of
           Kintyre"
      2: an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
      v 1: reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of
           the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the
           question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist
           must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over
           , think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate,
           contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over,
           ruminate, speculate]
      2: heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled
         cider"

mull - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  78 Moby Thesaurus words for "mull":
     addle, ball up, befuddle, benumb, bewilder, blunt, botch, botchery,
     candy, chafe, chew over, con, consider, contemplate, cook, dally,
     deliberate over, desensitize, dillydally, discombobulate, distract,
     dulcify, dull, edulcorate, electric-heat, evaluate, examine, fire,
     fire up, foment, fuddle, gas-heat, glaze, hash, heat, honey, hot,
     hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, linger, loiter, mix-up,
     muddle, mull over, muse on, muss, numb, overheat, poke, ponder,
     preheat, procrastinate, put off, recook, reheat, review,
     ruminate over, saccharify, shambles, steam, stoke up, study, sugar,
     sugar off, sugarcoat, superheat, sweeten, tarry, tepefy,
     think about, think over, throw off, turn over, warm, warm over,
     warm up, weigh