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Meaning of MULLER

Pronunciation:  'mulur

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 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a vessel in which wine is mulled
  2. [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
  3. [n]  a reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation
  4. [n]  United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967)
  5. [n]  British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900)
  6. [n]  German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476)
  7. [n]  German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858)
  8. [n]  Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927)
  9. [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
 
 See Also: anatomist, astronomer, chemist, geneticist, mathematician, nuclear physicist, philologist, philologue, physiologist, stargazer, thinker, tool, uranologist, vessel

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. \Mull"er\, n.
    1. One who, or that which, mulls.
    2. A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.
    
  2. \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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