mull Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a term used in Scottish names of promontories
    • the Mull of Kintyre
  2. noun an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
  3. verb reflect deeply on a subject
    ponder; ruminate; muse; think over; reflect; contemplate; meditate; chew over; mull over; excogitate; speculate.
    • 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
  4. verb heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink
    • mulled cider

WordNet

Mull noun
Etymology
Perh. contr. fr. mossul. See Muslin.
Definitions
  1. A thin, soft kind of muslin.
Mull noun
Etymology
Icel. mli a snout, muzzle, projecting crag; or cf. Ir. & Gael. meall a heap of earth, a mound, a hill or eminence, W. moel. Cf. Mouth.
Definitions
  1. A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre. Scot.
  2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
Mull noun
Etymology
Prob. akin to mold. *108. See Mold.
Definitions
  1. Dirt; rubbish. Obs. Gower.
Mull transitive verb
Etymology
OE. mullen. See 2d Muller.
Definitions
  1. To powder; to pulverize. Prov. Eng.
Mull intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem. Colloq. U.S.
Mull noun
Definitions
  1. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Mull transitive verb
Etymology
From mulled, for mold, taken as a p.p.; OE. mold-ale funeral ale or banquet. See Mold soil.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Mulled ; present participle & verbal noun Mulling
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913