mull

verb

1. (usually)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”

   “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.”

   “But here’s a thought I had as you were speaking just now, and I’m mulling it over.”

   “When Morrison mulls the pluses and minuses associated with rebuking Kelly for undermining the government’s public health messaging, the prime minister faces a genuine substantive dilemma, and that goes to the risks of amplification.”

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.
7. (archaic, slang)To bungle or botch.

   “'That's rather like another plant where a string of pearls was changed some years ago,' volunteered Greatorex, laying aside the paper in favour of his own reminiscences. […] 'Yes; they mulled that by not copying the sale label closely enough, and the attendant noticed it when the necklace was laid down again. […]'”

noun

1. (uncountable)Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
2. (countable, uncountable)A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
3. (countable, uncountable)The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
4. (countable, uncountable)An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
5. (archaic, countable, slang, uncountable)A mess of something; a mistake.

   “Mr. HERDMAN. — The honourable member for Nelson says they made a mull of it. If the honourable gentleman had been a financial authority he would never have given expression to such a thought.”

   “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."”

6. (Northern-England, countable, dialectal, uncountable)Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
7. (countable, uncountable)A thin, soft muslin.

   “The merchandise in this case consists of Madras mulls — thin cotton cloth.”

   “Smocking done in colors on fine white batiste, silk mull, or nainsook makes pretty guimpes and dresses for children and very smart blouses for women.”

8. (Scotland)A promontory.

   “the Mull of Kintyre”

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

   “Charles Dickens quoted in 1872, John Forster, The Life of Charles Dickens Much in this manner they exhibit at the door of a snuff-shop the effigy of a Highlander with an empty mull in his hand, who, apparently having taken all the snuff he can carry, and discharged all the sneezes of which he is capable, politely invites his friends and patrons to step in and try what they can do in the same line.”

10. (countable, uncountable)Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.
11. (obsolete, slang)A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency.

    “The Mulls have been excited also by another occurrence […] affecting rather the trading than fashionable world.”

    “[…] but the glorious days, when "Qui-hyes" and "Mulls" used to be pitted against each other for first spear, have vanished, […]”

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

name

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