dissect vs mull

dissect

verb
  • To analyze an idea in detail by separating it into its parts. 

  • To study an animal's anatomy by cutting it apart; to perform a necropsy or an autopsy. 

  • To separate muscles, organs, and so on without cutting into them or disrupting their architecture. 

  • Of an infection or foreign material, following the fascia separating muscles or other organs. 

  • To study a plant or other organism's anatomy similarly. 

mull

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. 

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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