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What does "mull" mean?

Mull: A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre. [Scot.]

Additional senses

  1. 2.A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
  2. 3.Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] Gower.
  3. 4.To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]
  4. 5.To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem. [Colloq. U.S.]
  5. 6.An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
  6. 7.To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine. New cider, mulled with ginger warm. Gay.
  7. 8.To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. Shak.

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