mullein (iou) and Overcall - Poker (gambling)

mullein (iou)

mullein noun. Also *mullen. LME.
[Old French moleine (mod. molene) from a Gaulish base corresp. to Breton melen, Cornish & Welsh melyn yellow.]
Any of various tall plants of the genus Verbascum, of the figwort family, with long spiky racemes of usu. yellow flowers and often with densely woolly leaves; esp. (in full great mullein), V. thapsus. LME.
Any of several plants resembling these in foliage; esp. Jerusalem sage, Phlomis fruticosa. L16-M18.
= mullein moth below. E19.
Comb.: mullein moth a pale brown and grey noctuid moth, Cucullia verbasci, whose larvae feed on mullein; mullein pink the rose campion, Lychnis coronaria; mullein shark = mullein moth above; mullein tea an infusion of mullein leaves, used medicinally; mullein wave a white geometrid moth with pale grey markings, Scopula marginepunctata.

Overcall - Poker (gambling)

1) Call a bet after one or more others have already called. For example, Jim bets, and Sue calls. If you also call, you are overcalling. 2) At the showdown, declare a hand as being better than it is, for which some card-rooms impose a penalty, that the player may lose claim to the pot; that is, the verbal announcement takes precedence over the actual cards. The reason for the rule is that one of the tactics of an angle shooter is to miscall a hand hoping that the Other player will inadvertently throw away the winning hand. If the loser then sees that the hand did not really have, for example, a flush, but only four hearts and a diamond, the angler then says, "Oh, sorry; I overlooked my hand. Thought I had a flush."

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