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MULL . (1) A soft See also:plain See also:muslin exported largely from See also:England to See also:India, &c., and used also in some qualities for summer dresses in the See also:home See also:trade. The name is an See also:abbreviation of the See also:Hindu mulmul. (2) A word, derived from the same See also:root as seen in " See also:meal " and " See also:- MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill," meaning that which is ground or reduced in other ways to See also:powder or small particles. Thus a See also:snuff-See also:box is in See also:Scotland called a " mull," from the See also:early See also:machines in which the See also:tobacco was gro and. Large snuff-mulls, which remained stationary on a table, as opposed to the small portable boxes, often took the See also:form of a See also:ram's See also:head ornamented in See also:silver. Possibly from the ground or grated spices with whicn See also:ale or See also:wine is flavoured when heated, comes the expression " mulled," as applied to such a beverage. The colloquial expression " to make a mull," i.e. to muddle or make a failure of something, also perhaps connected with " to mull," to reduce to powder. (3) The Scots word " mull," meaning a promontory or headland, as the Mull of See also:Galloway, the Mull of Kintyre, represents the Gaelic maol, cf. Icelandic muli in the same sense; this may be the same as mini, snout, cf. Ger. Maul.
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