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An island, the second largest in the Inner Hebrides, in Argyll and Bute council area, Scotland.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: bhang, benj, boo, broccoli, bud, buddha, cannabis, cheeba, choof, daccha, dank, devil's lettuce, djamba, doja, doobage, dope, endo, gage, ganja, ganj, grass, green, greenery, hash, hashish, hemp, herb, Mary Jane, MJ, marihoochie, marijuana, Mary Joanna, method, mezz, muggle, mull, pot, puff, reefer, sens, sensimillia, sensimilla, shit, sweetleaf, tea, Texas tea, trees, twig, wacky tobaccy, weed, yarndie, zaza, zombie
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noun
A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A mess of something; a mistake.
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Usage: archaic, countable, slang, uncountable
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noun
Dirt, dust, or other waste matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Northern-England, countable, dialectal, uncountable
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noun
A thin, soft muslin.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A promontory.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Scotland
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noun
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
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noun
Friable forest humus that forms a layer of mixed organic matter and mineral soil and merges gradually into the mineral soil beneath.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
A member of the Service belonging to the Madras Presidency.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, slang
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verb
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: usually
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verb
To powder; to pulverize.
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verb
To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form.
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verb
To heat and spice something, such as wine.
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verb
To join two or more individual windows at mullions.
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verb
To dull or stupefy.
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verb
To bungle or botch.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, slang
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noun
an island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: island
noun
a term used in Scottish names of promontories
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: promontory, headland, head, foreland
verb
reflect deeply on a subject
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull over, ruminate, speculate
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Broader terms: think, cogitate, cerebrate
Narrower terms: premeditate, theologize, theologise, introspect, bethink, cogitate, wonder, question, puzzle, study, consider
verb
heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sweeten, dulcify, edulcorate, dulcorate
History
From the noun mull (“crag, promontory”). Known in Old Norse as Myl.
Inherited from Middle English molle, mulle (“dust, rubbish”), possibly from Old English myl (“dust, mould”), from Proto-West Germanic *muli, a deverbal formation from *mulljan and thus cognate with Dutch mul (“dust, mould”), German Müll (“rubbish”), Swedish moln (“cloud”) and related to English mill (“to grind”). Alternatively, from Middle French mol or its etymon Latin mollis (“soft”). Some verbal senses are supplied by Middle English mollen (“to soften, dissolve”), from Old French moillier, from Latin *molliāre (“to steep”), itself from mollis; compare moil.
Shortened from mulmul.
From Scottish Gaelic maol.
Borrowed from Danish muld, from Old Norse mold.
From mulligatawny.
Across languages
42 source translations are retained for this English entry.
