cook vs mull

cook

verb
  • To concoct or prepare. 

  • To tamper with or alter; to cook up. 

  • To play or improvise in an inspired and rhythmically exciting way. (From 1930s jive talk.) 

  • To play music vigorously. 

  • To execute by electric chair. 

  • To prepare food for eating by heating it, often combining with other ingredients. 

  • To be uncomfortably hot. 

  • To be cooked. 

  • To hold on to a grenade briefly after igniting the fuse, so that it explodes almost immediately after being thrown. 

noun
  • The degree or quality of cookedness of food 

  • One who manufactures certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

  • A person who prepares food. 

  • A fish, the European striped wrasse, Labrus mixtus. 

  • The head cook of a manor house 

  • A session of manufacturing certain illegal drugs, especially meth. 

mull

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

  • 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 join two or more individual windows at mullions. 

noun
  • 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. 

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

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