Meaning of MULLER
Pronunciation: | | 'mulur
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- [n] a vessel in which wine is mulled
- [n] 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
- [n] a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
- [n] United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
- [n] British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
- [n] German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
- [n] German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
- [n] Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)
- [n] Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965)
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| Synonyms: | | Friedrich Max Muller, Hermann Joseph Muller, Johann Muller, Johannes Peter Muller, Karl Alex Muller, Max Muller, muser, Paul Hermann Muller, pestle, ponderer, pounder, Regiomontanus, ruminator |
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| See Also: | | anatomist, astronomer, chemist, geneticist, mathematician, nuclear physicist, philologist, philologue, physiologist, stargazer, thinker, tool, uranologist, vessel | |
Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Mull"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, mulls.
2. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
\Mull"er\, n. [OE. mullen to pulverize, bruise; cf. Icel.
mylja; prob. akin to E. mold soil. See {Mold} soil, and cf.
{Mull} dirt.]
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.
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