Mell vs Mull - What's the difference?
mell | mull |
(archaic) To deal, concern oneself; to interfere or meddle.
*c. 1495 , (John Skelton), "Vppon a deedman's hed":
*:For wher so we dwell / Deth wyll us qwell / And with us mell .
* 1819 , , Ivanhoe , ch. 32,
(obsolete) honey
* Warner
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; usually with over.
* 1912 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 5
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.
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.
(Scotland) A promontory.
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
dirt; rubbish
As an adjective mell
is soft.As a noun mull is
trash, garbage, refuse, waste.mell
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) melen, .Alternative forms
* (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) mellen, from (etyl) meller, , (l).Verb
(en verb)- “By Saint Thomas of Kent,” said he, “an I buckle to my gear, I will teach thee, sir lazy lover, to mell with thine own matters, maugre thine iron case there!”
Etymology 3
See mellifluous.Noun
(-)- Ev'n such as neither wanton seeme, nor waiward, mell , nor gall.
mull
English
Etymology 1
Verb
(en verb)- 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.
Derived terms
* mulled wine, mulled ciderNoun
Synonyms
* See alsoEtymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- the Mull of Kintyre
Etymology 3
Probably related to mould.Noun
(-)- (Gower)