Mull

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  • noun. A soft thin muslin used in dresses and for trimmings.
  • intransitive verb. To think about extensively; ponder.
  • intransitive verb. To ruminate; ponder.
  • transitive verb. To heat and spice (wine, for example).
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Dust; rubbish; dirt.
  • noun. Soft, crumbling soil.
  • noun. [⟨ mull, verb, 3.] A muddle; a mess; a failure: applied to anything that is involved or confused through mismanagement.
  • To reduce to dust; break into small pieces; crumb.
  • To rub, squeeze, or bruise.
  • To confuse; mix up; muddle; make a mess of.
  • noun. A cape or promontory: as, the mull of Galloway; the mull of Kintyre.
  • noun. A dialectal (Scotch) form of mill.
  • To rain softly.
  • noun. Compare muley. Satyr against Hypocrites (1689).
  • To heat and spice for drinking, as ale, wine, or the like; especially, to make into a warm drink, sweetened and spiced.
  • To boil or stew.
  • To stir; bustle; make a stir.
  • To work continuously at anything without making much progress; toil steadily and accomplish little; moil.
  • noun. A thin, soft kind of muslin used for dresses, trimmings, etc.: known as India mull, French mull, etc. Also mulmul, mullmull.
  • In leather manufacturing, to soften.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A thin, soft kind of muslin.
  • noun. A promontory.
  • noun. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
  • noun. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
  • transitive verb. To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices.
  • transitive verb. To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
  • noun. Dirt; rubbish.
  • transitive verb. To powder; to pulverize.
  • intransitive verb. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
  • verb. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
  • verb. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  • verb. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  • verb. To dull or stupefy
  • noun. A thin, soft muslin.
  • noun. Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
  • noun. A stew of meat (chicken, goat, dove, pork, etc.), broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
  • noun. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
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  • verb. reflect deeply on a subject
  • verb. heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink
  • noun. an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
  • noun. a term used in Scottish names of promontories
  • Word Usage
    "Articles of wearing apparel were done upon a soft fine muslin called mull, breadths of which were embroidered for skirts, lengths of it were scalloped and embroidered for flounces, and hand-lengths of it were done for the short waists and sleeves of the pretty Colonial gowns worn by our delicate ancestresses."
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