Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Mull"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mull \Mull\, v. t. [OE. mullen. See 2d {Muller}.]
To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mull \Mull\, n.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or
the peelings and refuse of the larger.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mull \Mull\ (m[u^]l), n. [Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See
{Muslin}.]
A thin, soft kind of muslin.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Mull \Mull\, n. [Prob. akin to mold. [root]108. See {Mold}.]
Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] --Gower.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
mull
n : a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of
Kintyre"
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}, {excogotate},
{contemplate}, {muse}, {reflect}, {mull over}, {ruminate},
{speculate}]
2: heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled
cider"
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