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Mull

//mɑl// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An island, the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
Noun
  1. 1
    Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. uncountable
  2. 2
    A thin, soft muslin. countable, uncountable

    "The merchandise in this case consists of Madras mulls — thin cotton cloth."

  3. 3
    A promontory. Scotland

    "the Mull of Kintyre"

  4. 4
    Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath. uncountable
  5. 5
    A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency. obsolete, slang

    "The Mulls have been excited also by another occurrence […] affecting rather the trading than fashionable world."

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  1. 6
    a term used in Scottish names of promontories wordnet
  2. 7
    A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
  4. 9
    The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger. countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A mess of something; a mistake. archaic, countable, slang, uncountable

    "Mr. HERDMAN. — The honourable member for Nelson says they made a mull of it. If the honourable gentleman had been a financial authority he would never have given expression to such a thought."

  7. 12
    Dirt, dust, or other waste matter. Northern-England, countable, dialectal, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. usually

    "to mull a thought or a problem"

  2. 2
    reflect deeply on a subject wordnet
  3. 3
    To powder; to pulverize.
  4. 4
    heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink wordnet
  5. 5
    To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
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  1. 6
    To heat and spice something, such as wine.
  2. 7
    To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
  3. 8
    To dull or stupefy.

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”). Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”). Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.

Etymology 3

Shortened from mulmul.

Etymology 4

From Scottish Gaelic maol.

Etymology 5

Borrowed from Danish muld, from Old Norse mold.

Etymology 6

From the noun mull (“crag, promontory”). Known in Old Norse as Myl.

Etymology 7

From mulligatawny.

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