mulish

[Eng. mul (e); -ish.] Like a mule; obstinate, stubborn, sullen. "That mulish folly, not to be reclaimed By softer methods, must be made ashamed." Cowper: Charity , 497. mül-Ish-lỹ, adv . [Eng. mulish; -ly.] In a mulish or stubborn manner; stubbornly, obstinately. mül-Ish-ne , s. [English mulish ; -ne .] The quality or state of being mulish; obstinacy, stubbornne . mull, v. t. [Formed from the adj. mulled, erroneously taken as a pa. participle. Mulled ale mold ale funeral ale.] *1. To soften, to dispirit, to deaden, to dull. 2. To heat, sweeten, and flavor with spices, as wine. IMG:content-1479.png:[blocks in formation] Australia . mull (2), s . [Hind. mul - mul =muslin; Fr. molle .] A thin, soft kind of cotton goods. Varieties are known as Swi , India, starched mull, . mŭll (3), s . [Icel. múlia promontory or jutting crag between two fiords, or the like; Gael. maol ; Orkney and Shetland mulle , mull .] 1. A cape, a projecting headland. 2. A snuff-box made of the small end of a horn; a snuff-box generally. "He plucked forth a huge horn snuff-box, or mull, as he called it, and proffered me." -Scott: Rob Roy, ch. vi. IMG:content-1480.png:[blocks in formation] mul-lar, s . [O. Fr. moulleur , from molre , moulre, mouldre to grind; Lat. molo .] A stamp with an intaglio ornament, for giving a salient impre ion to metal upon which it is struck.