fleece vs mull

fleece

noun
  • Any soft woolly covering resembling a fleece. 

  • A textile similar to velvet, but with a longer pile that gives it a softness and a higher sheen. 

  • The fine web of cotton or wool removed by the doffing knife from the cylinder of a carding machine. 

  • Mat or felts composed of fibers, sometimes used as a membrane backer. 

  • An insulating wooly jacket 

  • Hair or wool of a sheep or similar animal 

  • Insulating skin with the wool attached 

verb
  • To con or trick (someone) out of money. 

  • To cover with, or as if with, wool. 

  • To shear the fleece from (a sheep or other animal). 

mull

noun
  • A thin, soft muslin. 

  • 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 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. 

How often have the words fleece and mull occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )