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Webster 1913 Edition


Muller

Mull′er

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Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, mulls.
2.
A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

Mull′er

,
Noun.
[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.
Müllerian ducts
(Anat.)
,
a pair of embryonic ducts which give rise to the genital passages in the female, but disappear in the male.
–
Müllerian fibers
(Anat.)
,
the sustentacular or connective-tissue fibers which form the framework of the retina.

Webster 1828 Edition


Muller

MUL'LER

,
Noun.
[L. molaris, from mola, a mill-stone.]
1.
A stone held in the hand with which colors and other matters are ground on another stone; used by painters and apothecaries.
2.
An instrument used by glass grinders, being a piece of wood with the piece of glass to be ground cemented to one end, either convex in a basin, or concave in a sphere or bowl.