bone vs mull

bone

noun
  • A cannabis cigarette; a joint. 

  • One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone. 

  • One of the fragments of bone held between the fingers of the hand and rattled together to keep time to music. 

  • The wishbone formation. 

  • A domino or dice. 

  • The framework of anything. 

  • A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates. 

  • Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace. 

  • An off-white colour, like the colour of bone. 

  • A dollar. 

  • Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone. 

  • An erect penis; a boner. 

  • A reward. 

  • A bonefish 

  • A bone of a fish; a fishbone. 

adj
  • Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone. 

verb
  • To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line. 

  • To apprehend, steal. 

  • To study. 

  • To have sexual intercourse (with). 

  • To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from. 

  • To nag, especially for an unpaid debt. 

  • To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line. 

  • To put whalebone into. 

  • To fertilize with bone. 

  • To polish boots to a shiny finish. 

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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