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▪ I. muller, n.1|ˈmʌlə(r)|
Forms: 5 molour, -owre, mulloure, 6 mol(l)er, molver, 7, 9 mullar, 8– muller.
[Perh. a. AF. *moloir (cf. OF. moloir adj., serving to pound or grind), f. mol-, moldre (mod.F. moudre to grind.]
A stone with a flat base or grinding surface, which is held in the hand and used, in conjunction with a grinding stone or slab, in grinding painters' colours, apothecaries' powders, etc. Also muller-stone.
1404Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees) 396, j petra cum j molour pro pictoribus. c1440Promp. Parv. 342/1 Molowre, gryndynge stone (K. for colourys) mola. 1612Peacham Graphice 69 The choice of your grinding stone and mullar. I like best the porphyrie, white or greene Marble, with a muller or vpper stone of the same. c1790J. Imison Sch. Art II. 67 The student must be provided with..a large stone and muller to levigate the colours. 1873E. Spon Workshop Receipts Ser. i. 106/1 The muller is a hard and conical-formed stone, the diameter of the base or rubbing surface of which should be about one-sixth of that of the grindstone.
Comb.1856Royle & Headland Mat. Med. (ed. 3) 687 Tapioca Starch... Grains convex, ovoid, or mullar-shaped.
b. A similar implement used for polishing.
1727–41Chambers Cycl., Muller, is also an instrument used by the glass-grinders; being a piece of wood, to one end whereof is cemented the glass to be ground.
†c. Used (? erron.) for the slab upon which ingredients are mullered. Also muller stone. Obs.
1559Morwyng Evonym. 12 Renewing..the destillation, and powering again y⊇ water upon y⊇ dregges grounde vpon a marble moler. 1563T. Gale Antidot. ii. 78 Grynde them verye fyne vppon a moller stone.
d. Applied to mechanical contrivances for grinding or crushing.
1858Patents Specif., India Rubber (1875) 133 Disintegrating..india-rubber, and passing it through ‘mullers’ or rollers heated or not. 1889C. G. W. Lock Pract. Goldmining 691 The muller runs at 72 revolutions a minute.
▪ II. † ˈmuller, n.2 Sc. Obs.
Also 6 mullar, 7 muler.
[a. F. moulure: see moulure.]
= moulding.
1554–5Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1871) II. 354 Item,..mullars to the nether queir dur. 1563Shute Archit. 8 The muller or Coronicis, of the antiques. 1635G. Jamesone in J. Bulloch Life (1885) 92 The pryce [of the picture]..is twentie merkis,..bot iff I furniss ane double gilt muller, then it is twentie poundis.
Hence † ˈmullered a., furnished with a moulding.
1663in Kirkcudbr. War-Comm. Min. Bk. (1855) 188 Ane large keicking glass mulered with eibonie and caice conforme.
▪ III. muller, n.5|ˈmʌlə(r)|
[f. mull v.3 + -er1.]
1. A vessel in which wine or other liquor is mulled.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Muller,..a vessel for heating wine over a fire. 1889A. Watt Electro-Metall. 237 Large brass and copper articles, as mullers, for example, must be literally surrounded by anodes, otherwise they will not receive a uniform coating of nickel.
2. One who, or that which, mulls (Webster 1864).
▪ IV. muller, v.1|ˈmʌlə(r)|
[f. muller n.1]
trans. To grind with a muller.
1853Ure Dict. Arts II. 127 As long as the phosphorus is being ground or ‘mullered’, copious fumes are evolved. |