_A regular Mull_ (Vol. iii., p. 449.).--The story of King Mûl is perhaps
rather far-fetched. If it would neither put your correspondent in a
_stew_, nor get myself into a _broil_, nor you into a _mess_ or a
_pickle_, I would settle his _hash_ by suggesting that terms of cookery
are frequently used as descriptive of disagreeable predicaments; and
that though in our time nothing except beer or wine is _mulled_, yet it
may not always have been so. Or may not the word be a corruption of
_muddle_? I stand up for neither, but I will back either against King
Mûl.