mullin

And mullin 'over things that won't live past today

light4u Diary Entry light4u 2006

A strange hankering, a-mullin' and-ah creepin' and a-crawlin in mah heyad.

8th December '03 2003

But _mullin_ here means stirring, bustling in an underhand way, and is a metaphor derived from _mulling wine_.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

Drink dock root tea, mullin tea, and flaxweed tea, but we never wore charms.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

_Margaret_, -- "There has been a pretty considerable _mullin_ going on among the doctors."

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 Various

Seems to me, though, it would be a sight more satisfyin 'to live them fifty-odd years _with_ her and raise up a fam'ly, and git some benefits out of that sweetness and beauty and sich like, besides mullin' 'em over in your mind.

Scattergood Baines Clarence Budington Kelland 1922

I'd been mullin 'on that mystery ever since I struck the town.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

I expect it was the roses that set me mullin 'the case over again.

The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907

"What," I said, "do you mean to say that I could have had all that beautiful grass and those mullin stalks for fifty thousand dollars?"

Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Stephen Leacock 1906

We made 5 kinds, hayseed, sweet firn, cornsilk, mullin leeves, and grape vine. my mouth taisted aufuly all nite.

The Real Diary of a Real Boy 1899