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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mull \Mull\ (m[u^]l), noun [Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See {Muslin}.] A thin, soft kind of muslin.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mull \Mull\, verb (used with an object) [OE. mullen. See 2d {Muller}.] To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mull \Mull\, noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mull \Mull\, noun [Prob. akin to mold. [root]108. See {Mold}.] Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] --Gower.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mull \Mull\, verb (used without an object) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem. [Colloq. U.S.]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mull \Mull\, noun An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mull \Mull\, verb (used with an object) [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.
New cider, mulled with ginger warm. --Gay.
2. To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mull
noun
1: a term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre"
2: an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
verb
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 over}, {ruminate}, {speculate}]
2: heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled cider"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
78 Moby Thesaurus words for "mull": addle, ball up, befuddle, benumb, bewilder, blunt, botch, botchery, candy, chafe, chew over, con, consider, contemplate, cook, dally, deliberate over, desensitize, dillydally, discombobulate, distract, dulcify, dull, edulcorate, electric-heat, evaluate, examine, fire, fire up, foment, fuddle, gas-heat, glaze, hash, heat, honey, hot, hot up, hot-air-heat, hot-water-heat, linger, loiter, mix-up, muddle, mull over, muse on, muss, numb, overheat, poke, ponder, preheat, procrastinate, put off, recook, reheat, review, ruminate over, saccharify, shambles, steam, stoke up, study, sugar, sugar off, sugarcoat, superheat, sweeten, tarry, tepefy, think about, think over, throw off, turn over, warm, warm over, warm up, weigh
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