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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MULL, v.t. [L. mollio, to soften.]
1. To soften; or to heat, sweeten and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.
Drink new cider, mull'd with ginger warm.
2. To dispirit or deaden.
MULL, n. In Scottish, a snuff-box, made of the small end of a horn.
MULL, n. Dust. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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"

Merriam Webster's

geographical name island W Scotland in the Inner Hebrides area 351 square miles (913 square kilometers), population 1499

Merriam Webster's

I. verb Etymology: Middle English, from mul, mol dust, probably from Middle Dutch; akin to Old English melu meal — more at meal Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to grind or mix thoroughly ; pulverize 2. to consider at length ; ponder — often used with over intransitive verb meditate, ponder II. transitive verb Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1618 to heat, sweeten, and flavor (as wine or cider) with spices III. noun Etymology: by shortening & alteration from mulmul muslin, from Hindi malmal Date: 1798 a soft fine sheer fabric of cotton, silk, or rayon IV. noun Etymology: Danish muld, from Old Norse mold dust, soil; akin to Old High German molta dust, soil — more at mold Date: 1928 1. friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath 2. a finely powdered solid especially in a suspension

Oxford Reference Dictionary

1. v.tr. & intr. (often foll. by over) ponder or consider. Etymology: perh. f. mull grind to powder, ME mul dust f. MDu. 2. v.tr. warm (wine or beer) with added sugar, spices, etc. Etymology: 17th c.: orig. unkn. 3. n. Sc. a promontory. Etymology: ME: cf. Gael. maol, Icel. múli 4. n. humus formed under non-acid conditions. Etymology: G f. Da. muld 5. n. a thin soft plain muslin. Etymology: abbr. of mulmull f. Hindi malmal

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mull Mull, v. t. [OE. mullen. See 2d Muller.] To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mull Mull, n. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mull Mull, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mulled; 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. New cider, mulled with ginger warm. --Gay. 2. To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. --Shak.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mull Mull (m[u^]l), n. [Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See Muslin.] A thin, soft kind of muslin.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.] 2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Mull Mull, n. [Prob. akin to mold. [root]108. See Mold.] Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] --Gower.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(mulls, mulling, mulled) If you mull something, you think about it for a long time before deciding what to do. (AM) Last month, a federal grand jury began mulling evidence in the case... Do you know why he was mulling and hesitating? VERB: V n, V

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Muddle, mess (colloq.).

Moby Thesaurus

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