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