Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An implement of stone or other hard substance used as a pestle to grind paints or drugs.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The grinder in an amalgamating-pan, or any similar form of pulverizing and amalgamating apparatus.
- noun An implement of stone or glass with which paints are ground by hand.
- noun One who mulls wine, cider, etc.
- noun A vessel in which wine or other liquor is mulled.
- noun A prehistoric stone implement, so called because supposed to have been used for grinding grain. See the extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, mulls.
- noun A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
- noun A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun metallurgy A machine that mixes
sand andclay for use in metalcastings . - noun art A
grinding stone , held in the hand, used especially for preparingpaint . - verb UK To
defeat ordestroy utterly (as in asport orcompetition ).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
- noun German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
- noun a vessel in which wine is mulled
- noun Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
- noun a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
- noun British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
- noun United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
- noun a heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone
- noun Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Use a muller, which is a glass or stone grinding device, to spread the paint into a thin layer on the glass or marble; more pigment or more oil may be added, depending upon whether the paint is too runny or too thick.
Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011
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Use a muller, which is a glass or stone grinding device, to spread the paint into a thin layer on the glass or marble; more pigment or more oil may be added, depending upon whether the paint is too runny or too thick.
Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011
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Use a muller, which is a glass or stone grinding device, to spread the paint into a thin layer on the glass or marble; more pigment or more oil may be added, depending upon whether the paint is too runny or too thick.
Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011
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Use a muller, which is a glass or stone grinding device, to spread the paint into a thin layer on the glass or marble; more pigment or more oil may be added, depending upon whether the paint is too runny or too thick.
Daniel Grant: Some Artists Make Their Own Paints Daniel Grant 2011
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I might stay up to watch Pacquiao muller Ortiz in five rounds, but Mayweather is not the guy to watch when you're already sleepy, prodigiously talented though he most certainly is.
Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield 2011
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Lineker, me and Hansen, three tarts together, he'd muller all of us.
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Chris Larson, Deep North, 2008, C-Print mounted on aludibond, 35 x 35 inches, Edition of 5 + 2 AP's, Courtesy of magnus muller, Berlin
Kimberly Brooks: What Climate Change Might Look Like: Chris Larson's Deep North 2009
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Chris Larson, Deep North, 2008, C-Print mounted on aludibond, 35 x 35 inches, Edition of 5 + 2 AP's, Courtesy of magnus muller, Berlin
Kimberly Brooks: What Climate Change Might Look Like: Chris Larson's Deep North 2009
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Chris Larson is represented by magnus muller, Berlin (www. magnusmuller.com).
Kimberly Brooks: What Climate Change Might Look Like: Chris Larson's Deep North 2009
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His latest work "Deep North" was presented at the magnus muller Gallery in Berlin and at the Rochester Art Center in the winter 2008/09.
Kimberly Brooks: What Climate Change Might Look Like: Chris Larson's Deep North 2009
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