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mule
(mass) | mule
- mulica |
mule
(encz) | mule,mezek n: Zdeněk Brož |
mule
(encz) | mule,mul Zdeněk Brož |
mule
(encz) | mule,mula n: Zdeněk Brož |
Mule
(gcide) | Mule \Mule\ (m[=u]l), n. [F., a she-mule, L. mula, fem. of
mulus; cf. Gr. my`klos, mychlo`s. Cf. AS. m[=u]l, fr. L.
mulus. Cf. Mulatto.]
1. (Zool.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated
between an ass and a mare. Sometimes the term is applied
to the offspring of a horse and a she-ass, but that hybrid
is more properly termed a hinny. See Hinny.
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Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy,
and proverbial for stubbornness.
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2. (Bot.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the
pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust
of another; -- called also hybrid.
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3. A very stubborn person.
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4. A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool,
etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; --
called also jenny and mule-jenny.
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5. A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
Syn: mules, scuff, scuffs.
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Mule armadillo (Zool.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia
hybrida), native of Buenos Ayres; -- called also mulita.
See Illust. under Armadillo.
Mule deer (Zool.), a large deer (Cervus macrotis syn.
Cariacus macrotis) of the Western United States. The
name refers to its long ears.
Mule pulley (Mach.), an idle pulley for guiding a belt
which transmits motion between shafts that are not
parallel.
Mule twist, cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in
distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.
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mule
(wn) | mule
n 1: hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse;
usually sterile
2: a slipper that has no fitting around the heel [syn: mule,
scuff] |
mule
(foldoc) | Mule
A multi-lingual enhancement of GNU Emacs. Mule
can handle not only ASCII characters (7 bit) and {ISO
Latin 1} characters (8 bit), but also 16-bit characters like
Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Mule can have a mixture of
languages in a single buffer.
Mule runs under the X window system, or on a {Hangul
terminal}, mterm or exterm.
(ftp://etlport.etl.go.jp/pub/mule).
(1996-01-28)
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mule
(vera) | MULE
MULtilingual Enhancement of GNU EMACS (EMACS, GNU)
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