These are the meanings of the letters MULLID when you unscramble them.
- Dill (a.)
To still; to calm; to soothe, as one in pain.
- Dill (n.)
An herb (Peucedanum graveolens), the seeds of which are moderately warming, pungent, and aromatic, and were formerly used as a soothing medicine for children; -- called also dillseed.
- Dull (superl.)
Furnishing little delight, spirit, or variety; uninteresting; tedious; cheerless; gloomy; melancholy; depressing; as, a dull story or sermon; a dull occupation or period; hence, cloudy; overcast; as, a dull day.
- Dull (superl.)
Heavy; gross; cloggy; insensible; spiritless; lifeless; inert.
- Dull (superl.)
Insensible; unfeeling.
- Dull (superl.)
Not bright or clear to the eye; wanting in liveliness of color or luster; not vivid; obscure; dim; as, a dull fire or lamp; a dull red or yellow; a dull mirror.
- Dull (superl.)
Not keen in edge or point; lacking sharpness; blunt.
- Dull (superl.)
Slow in action; sluggish; unready; awkward.
- Dull (superl.)
Slow of understanding; wanting readiness of apprehension; stupid; doltish; blockish.
- Dull (v. i.)
To become dull or stupid.
- Dull (v. t.)
To deprive of liveliness or activity; to render heavy; to make inert; to depress; to weary; to sadden.
- Dull (v. t.)
To deprive of sharpness of edge or point.
- Dull (v. t.)
To make dull, stupid, or sluggish; to stupefy, as the senses, the feelings, the perceptions, and the like.
- Dull (v. t.)
To render dim or obscure; to sully; to tarnish.
- Mild (superl.)
Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.
- Mill (n.)
A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill.
- Mill (n.)
A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.
- Mill (n.)
A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper.
- Mill (n.)
A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill.
- Mill (n.)
A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill.
- Mill (n.)
A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.
- Mill (n.)
A milling cutter. See Illust. under Milling.
- Mill (n.)
A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
- Mill (n.)
A passage underground through which ore is shot.
- Mill (n.)
A pugilistic.
- Mill (n.)
An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained.
- Mill (n.)
To beat with the fists.
- Mill (n.)
To make a raised border around the edges of, or to cut fine grooves or indentations across the edges of, as of a coin, or a screw head; also, to stamp in a coining press; to coin.
- Mill (n.)
To pass through a fulling mill; to full, as cloth.
- Mill (n.)
To reduce to fine particles, or to small pieces, in a mill; to grind; to comminute.
- Mill (n.)
To roll into bars, as steel.
- Mill (n.)
To shape, finish, or transform by passing through a machine; specifically, to shape or dress, as metal, by means of a rotary cutter.
- Mill (v. i.)
To swim under water; -- said of air-breathing creatures.
- Mull (n.)
A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre.
- Mull (n.)
A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
- Mull (n.)
A thin, soft kind of muslin.
- Mull (n.)
An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.
- Mull (n.)
Dirt; rubbish.
- Mull (v. i.)
To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem.
- Mull (v. t.)
To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.
- Mull (v. t.)
To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.
- Mull (v. t.)
To powder; to pulverize.