mull
verb
- think
- simmer with spices
noun
- type of fabric
- type of stew
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /mʌl/ / /mʊl/
name
Etymology: From the noun mull (“crag, promontory”). Known in Old Norse as Myl.
- An island, the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
noun
Etymology: From mulligatawny.
- A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency.
“The Mulls have been excited also by another occurrence […] affecting rather the trading than fashionable world.”
“[…] but the glorious days, when "Qui-hyes" and "Mulls" used to be pitted against each other for first spear, have vanished, […]”
verb
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”). Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.
- To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
“to mull a thought or a problem”
“he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision”
- To powder; to pulverize.
- To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
- To heat and spice something, such as wine.
- To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
- To dull or stupefy.
- To bungle or botch.
“'That's rather like another plant where a string of pearls was changed some years ago,' volunteered Greatorex, laying aside the paper in favour of his own reminiscences. […] 'Yes; they mulled that by not copying the sale label closely enough, and the attendant noticed it when the necklace was laid down again. […]'”