• (British, America) IPA: /mʌl/

Related to mill ("to grind").

mull (mulls, present participle mulling; simple past and past participle mulled)

1. (usually with over) 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

   • 1912 October, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, in The All-Story, New York, N.Y.: Frank A. Munsey Co., →OCLC ↗; republished as chapter 5, in Tarzan of the Apes, New York, N.Y.: A. L. Burt Company, 1914 June, →OCLC ↗:

     It was the germ of a thought, which, however, was destined to mull around in his conscious and subconscious mind until it resulted in magnificent achievement.

2. To powder; to pulverize.
3. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
4. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
5. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
6. To dull or stupefy.

• French: réfléchir, considérer, ruminer, gamberger (colloquial)
• German: erwägen, grübeln
• Portuguese: cogitar, ponderar
• Russian: размышля́ть
• Spanish: rumiar (colloquial)

• Spanish: picar

• Spanish: calentar, especiar

mull

1. (uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:marijuana

2. A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
3. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
4. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
5. (slang, archaic) A mess of something; a mistake.
   • 2014, Andrea Pickens, A Stroke of Luck

     After studying the page a bit longer, she made a face. "Good Lord, you've really made a mull of it. Here, let me have a closer look."

Shortened from mulmul.

mull

1. A thin, soft muslin.

mull (plural mulls)

1. (Scotland) A promontory.

   the Mull of Kintyre

2. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

From Middle English molle, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis.

mull (uncountable)

1. dirt; rubbish

1. An island , the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute.

From mulligatawny.

mull (plural mulls)

1. (Anglo-Indian, slang, obsolete) A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency.
   • 1852, Notes and Queries (1st ser. v. 165)

     [R]esidents of Bengal, Bombay, and Madras are, in Eastern parlance, designated 'Qui Hies,' 'Ducks,' and 'Mulls.'