单词 | mull |
释义 | mull I. 1. a. chiefly dialect Britain b. chiefly dialect Britain 2. < mull of subtly flavored shrimps-of-the-sea heaped on a snowy hillock of rice — Jean Austen > < made a mull of things up to now — Maguerite Steen > II. transitive verb 1. < mull a portion of the pigment with the oil — H.J.Wolfe > < the alloy, after removal from the amalgamator, was mulled in the palm of the hand — Journal of American Dental Association > < mull tobacco in making snuff > 2. a. Britain < mull a catch in cricket > b. (1) < walls were red brick, not a bright, brawling color, but sufficient to mull the edge of a bitter day — Audrey Barker > (2) < pleasantly mulled by the martinis — C.O.Gorham > < nerves dulled and mulled by copious wine — Francis Hackett > 3. < tax experts, mulling how to keep on a pay-as-you-go basis — Time > < aides mull a batch of overseas disposal plans — Wall Street Journal > — often used with over < the idea he was mulling over that spring — Virginia D. Dawson & Betty D. Wilson > < sat mulling over what she had said — Cortland Fitzsimmons > < mulling over a new quilt pattern — Julian Dana > < mulled the book over in his mind — Henry Giniger > 4. intransitive verb 1. < mull about for words that will convey suspicions as well as impressions — Everybody's Magazine > < all his talk of mulling and weighing and balancing was vacillation — J.P.Marquand > 2. < don't mull over your breakfast — Lionel Shapiro > < spend two hours after dinner mulling around with your agent — Niven Busch > III. Scotland < the Mull of Galloway > < the Mull of Kintyre > IV. V. VI. chiefly Scotland variant of mill VII. 1. 2. < zinc mull > VIII. IX. X. |
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