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[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;
- Example: "mulled cider"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mull \Mull\ (m[u^]l), n. [Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See
Muslin.]
A thin, soft kind of muslin.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
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2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mull \Mull\, n. [Prob. akin to mold. [root]108. See Mold.]
Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] --Gower.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mull \Mull\, v. t. [OE. mullen. See 2d Muller.]
To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.]
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mull \Mull\, n.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or
the peelings and refuse of the larger.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Mull \Mull\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mulled (m[u^]ld); 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.
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New cider, mulled with ginger warm. --Gay.
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2. To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. --Shak.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
mull
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"