mull

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To heat and spice (wine, for example).
2. v. To go over extensively in the mind; ponder.
3. v. To ruminate; ponder: mull over a plan.
4. n. A soft thin muslin used in dresses and for trimmings.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Dust; rubbish; dirt.
2. n. Soft, crumbling soil.
3. n. [⟨ mull, verb, 3.] A muddle; a mess; a failure: applied to anything that is involved or confused through mismanagement.
4. To reduce to dust; break into small pieces; crumb.
5. To rub, squeeze, or bruise.
6. To confuse; mix up; muddle; make a mess of.
7. n. A cape or promontory: as, the mull of Galloway; the mull of Kintyre.
8. n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of mill.
9. To heat and spice for drinking, as ale, wine, or the like; especially, to make into a warm drink, sweetened and spiced.
10. To boil or stew.
11. To stir; bustle; make a stir.
12. To work continuously at anything without making much progress; toil steadily and accomplish little; moil.
13. n. Compare muley. Satyr against Hypocrites (1689).
14. To rain softly.
15. n. A thin, soft kind of muslin used for dresses, trimmings, etc.: known as India mull, French mull, etc. Also mulmul, mullmull.
16. In leather manufacturing, to soften.

Wiktionary

1. v. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
2. v. To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
3. v. To heat and spice something, such as wine.
4. v. To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
5. v. To dull or stupefy
6. n. A thin, soft muslin.
7. n. uncountable Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
8. n. A stew of meat (chicken, goat, dove, pork, etc.), broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
9. n. The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A thin, soft kind of muslin.
2. n. Scot. A promontory.
3. n. A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
4. n. obsolete Dirt; rubbish.
5. v. Prov. Eng. To powder; to pulverize.
6. v. Colloq. U.S. To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over.
7. n. An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
8. v. To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices.
9. v. To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. reflect deeply on a subject
2. v. heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink
3. n. an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
4. n. a term used in Scottish names of promontories