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▪ I. mool, n. Sc. and north. dial.|muːl|
Forms: 6–9 mule, 6 mull, 7 mole, 7, 9 mowle, 8–9 mooil, 9 moul, muil, mowl, mee(a)l (see E.D.D.), 8– mool.
[app. a dial. variant of mould n.1; for the form cf. gool gold n.2 Some of the forms coincide with those of mull n., and it is occasionally difficult to distinguish the two words.]
1. Mould, earth, soil; also in pl. ‘dry earth in a pulverized state; earth for working’ (Eng. Dial. Dict.); a small lump or clod of earth. (In the first quot. used fig.)
a1578Lindesay (Pitscottie) Chron. Scot. (S.T.S.) I. 369 Quhen scho come on Scottis ground scho..inclynnit hir self to the earth and tuik the mullis thairof and kissit. 1641Best Farm. Bks. (Surtees) 107 They..rake it all over with hey⁓rakes..till the mowles bee indifferent small. Ibid., Another hath a showle and showleth the mowles into the hole. 1775J. Watson Hist. Halifax 543 Mooil, Mold or Earth. 1788W. Marshall Yorks. II. 341 Gloss., Meals, mould, earth soil. 1802A. Scott Poems (1808) 48 Now fields, convuls'd like dashin' waves, Wild row alang, An' out the ripen'd treasure laves The mools amang. 1834J. Wilson Noct. Ambr. Wks. 1856 IV. 72 Men ca' the wee sleek mole blind because he has nae een they can see, and leeves darklin in the moul. 1889Fenn Cure of Souls 52 (E.D.D.) Good leafy mowles for nex year's blubs [bulbs].
2. The soil for a grave; the grave. Also pl. grave-clods.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. I. 69 The rest I pas ouer, of quhilkes mony now vndir ane mule and lumpe of clay ly togither. 1645Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith xx. (1845) 258 The mules of the holy grave. 1728Ramsay Robt., Richy, & Sandy 22 Ah, heavens! did e'er this lyart head of mine Think to have seen the cauldrife mools on thine. 1789Burns Addr. to Toothache iv, Or worthy friends rak'd i' the mools, Sad sight to see! 1816Scott Antiq. xxxiv, When ye laid his head in the grave..ye saw the mouls laid on an honest lad that likit you weel. 1885J. Runciman Skippers & Sh. 260 Aw'll be putten away and happed up amang the mouls afore maw bonny lad comes hyem ony mair. 1894Crockett Lilac Sunbonnet ix. 75 Ye smell o' the muils. 1903J. Lumsden Toozle iv. i. 74 Guid auld Younger's i' the mools.
3. Comb., mool-board: see mould-board.
▪ II. mool, v. Sc.|muːl|
Forms: 6, 9 mule, 9 moul, 6– mool.
[f. mool n.]
1. trans. To crumble; esp. to crumble (bread) into a bowl in order to soak it in liquid.
1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.) 70 Intero, to mule in. 1737Ramsay Sc. Prov. (1797) 95 Ye ken naithing but milk and bread when it is mool'd in to you. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 413 The bairnies them daigh did mool.
2. intr. To associate intimately with.
17..Blythsome Bridal iii. in Herd Coll. Scot. Songs (1776) II. 24 And there will be Alaster Sibbie Wha in wi' black Betsy did mool. 1808–80Jamieson, To mule in with one, to have intimacy with one, as those who crumble their bread into one vessel; q. to eat out of the same dish. I wadna mule in with him, I would have no intimate fellowship with him. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. xi. 219 Though I ken I'll soon be in a warld o' spirits, an' that I maun mingle an' mool wi' them for ages.
3. trans. To bury (cf. mool n. 2 and 3).
1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck I. xi. 208 But where are they now? A' mouled! a' mouled!
▪ III. mool
obs. f. mole, mule, var. moul. |