black vs mull

black

noun
  • Marijuana. 

  • Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups. 

  • The edge of home plate. 

  • A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. 

  • The black ball. 

  • The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. 

  • A black dye or pigment. 

  • A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.) 

  • A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour. 

  • The person playing with the black set of pieces. 

  • Something, or a part of a thing, which is black. 

  • A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat. 

  • Black cloth hung up at funerals. 

adj
  • Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless. 

  • Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. 

  • Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”) 

  • Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public. 

  • Foul; dirty, soiled. 

  • Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public. 

  • Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”). 

  • Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen. 

  • Without any cream, milk, or creamer. 

  • Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name. 

  • Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.) 

  • Bad; evil; ill-omened. 

  • Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour). 

  • Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced. 

  • Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. 

  • Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism. 

  • Overcrowded. 

  • Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above). 

  • Without light. 

  • Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").) 

verb
  • To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute. 

  • To make black; to blacken. 

  • To apply blacking to (something). 

mull

noun
  • Marijuana that has been chopped to prepare it for smoking. 

  • An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger. 

  • A stew of meat, broth, milk, butter, vegetables, and seasonings, thickened with soda crackers. 

  • dirt; rubbish 

  • A thin, soft muslin. 

  • A promontory. 

  • A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn. 

  • The gauze used in bookbinding to adhere a text block to a book's cover. 

verb
  • To chop marijuana so that it becomes a smokable form. 

  • To dull or stupefy. 

  • To powder; to pulverize. 

  • To heat and spice something, such as wine. 

  • To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate. 

  • To join two or more individual windows at mullions. 

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