mull
English
Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌl
Etymology 1
Related to mill (“to grind”).
Verb
mull (third-person singular simple present mulls, present participle mulling, simple past and past participle mulled)
- To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
- to mull a thought or a problem
- he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
- 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5
- It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.
- To powder; to pulverize.
- To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
- To heat and spice something, such as wine.
- To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
- To dull or stupefy.
Derived terms
Translations
to work over mentally
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to chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form
to heat and spice something, such as wine
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Noun
mull (countable and uncountable, plural mulls)
- A thin, soft muslin.
- 1916, “Smocking”, in The Dressmaker: A Complete Book on All Matters Connected with Sewing and Dressmaking […], 2nd revised and enlarged edition, New York, N.Y., London: The Butterick Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 29:
- Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.
- (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:marijuana
- A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
- The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
- An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Translations
gauze used in bookbinding
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Etymology 2
Noun
mull (plural mulls)
- (Scotland) A promontory.
- the Mull of Kintyre
- A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
Etymology 3
Probably related to mould.
Noun
mull (uncountable)
- dirt; rubbish
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Gower to this entry?)
Scots
Noun
mull (plural mulls)
Swedish
Etymology
bak (“rear”) + säte (“seat”) + dörr (“door”), used since 1911.
Pronunciation
Noun
mull c
Declension
Declension of mull | ||||
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Indefinite | Definite | |||
Nominative | mull | mullen | — | — |
Genitive | mulls | mullens | — | — |
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