mulled English
Verb
(head)
(mull)
mull English
Etymology 1
Verb
( en verb)
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
- to mull a thought or a problem
- he paused to mull over his various options before making a decision
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
- 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.
To powder; to pulverize.
To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
To heat and spice something, such as wine.
To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
To dull or stupefy.
Derived terms
* mulled wine, mulled cider
Noun
A thin, soft muslin.
(uncountable) Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
Synonyms
* See also
Etymology 2
Noun
( en noun)
(Scotland) A promontory.
- the Mull of Kintyre
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
Etymology 3
Probably related to mould.
Noun
( -)
dirt; rubbish
- (Gower)
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malled English
Verb
(head)
(mall)
mall English
Noun
( en noun)
A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
- (Addison)
A heavy blow.
- (Spenser)
An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See pall mall.
- (Cotton)
A place where the game of mall was played.
A public walk; a level shaded walk.
* Southey
- Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall .
(US, Australia) A pedestrianised street, especially a shopping precinct.
- pedestrian mall
* 2002 , Alexander Garvin, The American City: What Works, What Doesn?t , page 179 ,
- America?s first pedestrianized shopping mall' opened in 1959 in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Like most later pedestrian ' malls , it was intended to revive what everybody thought was a decaying downtown.
An enclosed shopping centre.
* 2004 , Ralph E. Warner, Get a Life: You Don?t Need a Million to Retire Well , unnumbered page ,
- Every day, at about the time the rest of us go to work, groups of retirees gather at many of America?s enclosed shopping malls .
* 2010 , Greg Holden, Starting an Online Business For Dummies , unnumbered page ,
- In addition to Web site kits, ISPs, and businesses that specialize in Web hosting, online shopping malls provide another form of Web hosting.
Derived terms
* mallcore
* mallgoth
* mall rat
* shopping mall
Verb
( en verb)
To beat with a mall, or mallet; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.
To build up with the development of shopping malls.
(informal) To shop at the mall.
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