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Mull V Warm Beverage Add Spices Sweetening Mulling

Word mull (not "consider")
Definition v. To warm a beverage and add spices and sweetening to it.
Sentence Mulling it in the bowl, old Nestor poured a libation out, praying hard to Pallas Athena...
Source The Odyssey, 3.438–439

Tags: language::english, topic::vocabulary

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