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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A well-known tall, stout weed, Verbascum Thapsus, with a long dense woolly raceme of yellow flowers, and thick, densely woolly leaves; also, any plant of the genus Verbascum.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) See mullein.

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  • noun A tall plant with clustered yellow flowers and woolly leaves.

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Examples

  • I climbed into the old black pickup with mullen construction painted on the door and drove to the small brick building on 27 that houses the East Hampton Police Department.

    Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

  • A thirty-six-point, four-column headline with the same question I'd been asking: how did peter mullen die?

    Hi-Ya! Jason Henry McCormick 2010

  • Admiral mullen said today that "the 2011 exit date is just a target date and the troop withdrwal wil depend on conditions on the ground" This is iraq bush speak all over again.

    Lawmakers question 2011 Afghan exit plan 2009

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    Spokesman: Romney Not "Equating Or Comparing Anyone" When Holding "Obama Osama" Sign 2009

  • But for immediate pain, she says there are analgesics out there that offer relief, things like acetaminophen or even mullen oil.

    CNN Transcript Mar 14, 2006 2006

  • Once they fired a volley at a row of mullen stalks, waving on the brow of a hill, and once a picket shot at his own horse that had got loose and had wandered toward him in the dusk.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • I climbed into the old black pickup with mullen construction painted on the door and drove to the small brick building on 27 that houses the East Hampton Police Department.

    The Beach House Patterson, James, 1947- 2002

  • A thirty-six-point, four-column headline with the same question I'd been asking: how did peter mullen die?

    The Beach House Patterson, James, 1947- 2002

  • You climbed a fence out of the woods and the trail was hard in the sun across the field with cropped grass and sheep sorrel and mullen growing and to the left the quaky bog of the creek bottom where the killdeer plover fed.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • You climbed a fence out of the woods and the trail was hard in the sun across the field with cropped grass and sheep sorrel and mullen growing and to the left the quaky bog of the creek bottom where the killdeer plover fed.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

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  • (n.) Measurement of the force required, in pounds per square inch, to rupture a sheet of kraft paper. Also known as bursting strength.

    August 5, 2009

  • Also moleyne.

    September 6, 2022