MULL

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MULL . (1) A soft plain

muslin

MUSLIN (through Fr. mousseline from It. mussolino, diminutive of Mussolo, i.e. the town Mosul in Kurdistan)

exported largely from England to India, &c., and used also in some qualities for summer dresses in the

home

trade

. The name is an abbreviation of the Hindu mulmul. (2) A word, derived from the same root as seen in "

meal

MEAL

" and " mill," meaning that which is ground or reduced in other ways to powder or small particles. Thus a snuff-box is in

Scotland

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  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
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  WILLIAM (1815–189o)
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  - KIRK, SIR JOHN (1832- )
  , Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
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called a " mull," from the early machines in which the tobacco was gro and. Large snuff-mulls, which remained stationary on a table, as opposed to the small portable boxes, often took the form of a ram's head ornamented in silver. Possibly from the ground or grated spices with whicn ale or wine is flavoured when heated, comes the expression " mulled," as applied to such a beverage. The colloquial expression " to make a mull," i.e. to muddle or make a failure of something, also perhaps connected with " to mull," to reduce to powder. (3) The Scots word " mull," meaning a promontory or headland, as the Mull of

Galloway

, the Mull of Kintyre, represents the Gaelic maol, cf. Icelandic muli in the same sense; this may be the same as mini, snout, cf. Ger. Maul.

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