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Mull

noun

A term used in Scottish names of promontories.

An island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides.

verb

(past & past part. mulled; pres. part. mulling)

Reflect deeply on a subject. Synonyms: chew over, contemplate, excogitate, meditate, mull over, muse, ponder, reflect, ruminate, speculate, think over. "Philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years" , "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate"

Heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink.

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"Mull" Quotes from Famous Books

... was wondering whether I'd go out on the veranda or sit here and mull. I'm glad you've come. ...

— Polly and the Princess • Emma C. Dowd

... Highlander, a genuine lover of sneeshin. At the door of the Blair-Athole Hotel he observed standing a magnificent man in full tartans, and noticed with much admiration the wide dimensions of his nostrils in a fine upturned nose. He accosted him, and, as his most complimentary act, offered him his mull for a pinch. The stranger drew up, and rather haughtily said: "I never take snuff." "Oh," said the other, "that's a peety, ...

— Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character • Edward Bannerman Ramsay

... to mull over the details. Subconsciously, since the moment she had made her escape from that cellar, she found now that she had been walking in the direction of the garret that sheltered her as Gypsy Nan. In another five minutes she could ...

— The White Moll • Frank L. Packard

... north—the same Picts who, in years gone by, had raged against the barrier of Hadrian between Forth and Clyde. The year of his setting out was 563; the great center of his work was in the sacred isle of Iona, off the Ross of Mull. Iona stands in the rush of Atlantic surges and fierce western storms, yet it is an island of rare beauty amid the tinted mists of summer dawns. Under the year 592, a century after Saint Patrick's death, we find this entry in the Chronicle: "Colum ...

— Ireland, Historic and Picturesque • Charles Johnston

... reasonable intervals for sneezing and blowing his nose. Evidently the story is an idle one—more idle than M. THIERS ever could have been. Perhaps it was "pinching" poverty in the way of items that drove the itemizer to invent it. At any rate, he has made a "mull" of it. ...

— Punchinello, Vol.1, No. 4, April 23, 1870 • Various

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