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.