MULL

n. v.

9 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A thin, soft kind of muslin.

2.
n.

A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre. [Scot.]

3.
n.

A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

4.
n.

Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] Gower.

5.
v.

To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]

6.
v.

To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem. [Colloq. U.S.]

7.
n.

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

8.
v.

To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine. New cider, mulled with ginger warm. Gay.

9.
v.

To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. Shak.


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