fond vs mull

fond

noun
  • Brown residue in pans from cooking meats and vegetables. 

  • A group of records having shared provenance. 

  • The background design in lace-making. 

adj
  • Affectionate. 

  • Having a liking or affection (for). 

  • Outlandish; foolish; silly. 

  • Indulgent. 

mull

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

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

  • 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. 

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