Mule
[mjuːl] or [mjul]
Definition
(noun.) hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile.
(noun.) a slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
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Definition
(n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
(n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.
(n.) A very stubborn person.
(n.) 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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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Hybrid, mongrel, hinny.
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Definition
n. the offspring of the horse and ass: an instrument for cotton-spinning: an obstinate person.—ns. Mūle′-deer the black-tail of North America; Mūleteer′ one who drives mules.—adj. Mūl′ish like a mule: obstinate.—adv. Mūl′ishly.—n. Mūl′ishness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
If you dream that your are riding on a mule, it denotes that you are engaging in pursuits which will cause you the greatest anxiety, but if you reach your destination without interruption, you will be recompensed with substantial results. For a young woman to dream of a white mule, shows she will marry a wealthy foreigner, or one who, while wealthy, will not be congenial in tastes. If she dreams of mules running loose, she will have beaux and admirers, but no offers of marriage. To be kicked by a mule, foretells disappointment in love and marriage. To see one dead, portends broken engagements and social decline.
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Examples
- Yet they speak of the mule as stubborn, the woman said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- With a man on each side holding these ropes, the mule was released from his other bindings and allowed to rise. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- They had generally made their escape with a team or two, sometimes a yoke of oxen with a mule or a horse in the lead. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The road was filled with mule trains and long processions of camels. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- The spinning machine is simply an improved form of Crompton's mule, already described. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The mule spinner shown in Fig. 287 is a good modern example of this machine. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A lasso was then thrown over the neck of a mule, when he would immediately go to the length of his tether, first one end, then the other in the air. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This time, about half of that side of the house came in with the mule. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In spinning fine numbers of yarn, a workman in a self-acting mule will do the work of 3,000 hand-spinners with the distaff and spindle. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Every lady must doubtless be incommoded by having to do with that proverbially unaccommodating animal, the mule. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Thirty wagons also, counting two two-horse or mule teams as one, will be allowed to transport such articles as cannot be carried along. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At all events the Corpus Christi mule resisted the new use to which he was being put. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The mule entirely superseded the use of the jenny. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- We passed a long column of loaded mules, the drivers walking along beside the mules wearing red fezzes. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- We left the mules, sharpened our finger-nails, and began the ascent I have been writing about so long, at twenty minutes to six in the morning. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Darkness, outstripping some visitors on mules, had risen thus to the rough convent walls, when those travellers were yet climbing the mountain. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The principal business consisted in securing mules, and getting them broken to harness. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Five mules were allotted to each wagon. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He is then dragged out by horses or mules, another is let into the ring, and the same performance is renewed. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- By the side of a pool of water far away from the road a Macedonian trooper presently found a deserted mule-cart with its mules still in the traces. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With a full corps of assistants, other teamsters, he would then proceed to get his mules together. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Let them unload two of the sumpter-mules, and put the baggage behind two of the serfs. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The machinery was taken up in pieces on the backs of mules from the foot of the mountain. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The mules were first driven into a stockade, called a corral, inclosing an acre or more of ground. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Two mules to carry the shells and a mule with a mortar on each side of the pack saddle. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- All goods were put up in compact packages of about one hundred pounds each, suitable for loading on pack mules. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The mules may transport the litter, and we have led horses for the old man and his daughter. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- I directed him to take mules, officers' horses, or animals wherever he could get them to move the necessary artillery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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