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▪ I. mulled, a. Sc.|mʌld| [f. mull n.4 + -ed2.] Hornless, pollard.
1835Blackw. Mag. XXXVII. 434*/2 The worst want of this dilemma is the want of horns. It is like the front of a Galloway stot—mulled. ▪ II. mulled, ppl. a.1|mʌld| [f. mull v.3 + -ed1.] Of ale, wine, cider, etc.: Made into a sweetened and spiced hot drink and sometimes thickened with beaten yolk of egg. † Of water, vinegar: ? Sweetened and made hot (= mulsed).
1607G. Wilkins Mis. Enforced Marr. F j b, I can drinke Muscadine and Egges, and Muld-sack. 1661Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 13 Castorium drunk in mulled water q. drach. 2. looseneth the belly. Ibid., Being given in unc. 4. sem. of mulled vinegar fasting it helpeth the falling sickness. 1764E. Moxon Eng. Housew. (ed. 9) 85 Then mix them together as you would do mull'd ale. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. (1861) 237 The whole community was deluged with cherry-brandy..and mulled cider. 1882M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. xi. 265 A tankard of mulled claret. ▪ III. mulled see also mull v.1, v.8. |