MULLED

Verb

mulled

simple past tense and past participle of mull

Source: Wiktionary


MULL

Mull, n. Etym: [Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See Muslin.]

Definition: A thin, soft kind of muslin.

Mull, n. Etym: [Icel. m 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.

Mull, n. Etym: [Prob. akin to mold. *108. See Mold.]

Definition: Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] Gower.

Mull, v. t. Etym: [OE. mullen. See 2d Muller.]

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

Mull, v. i.

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

Mull, n.

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

Mull, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mulled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mulling.] Etym: [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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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