mule

Definition of mule in English English dictionary: A generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals; A stubborn person; A generally sterile hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; A woman's shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel; A person paid to smuggle drugs; A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error; {i} animal which is a hybrid of a horse and a donkey; stubborn person; weaving device; type of slipper that leaves the heel exposed; {n} an animal between an ass and a mare; Small U S military 4-wheeled cargo vehicle; half slipper; Multilingual Emacs; A mule is an animal whose parents are a horse and a donkey; A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; called also hybrid; A coin, token or medal with obverse and reverse sides which are not normally matched by the issuing authority Mules are normally the result of a mistake in the coining process when one half of a die pair is accidentally used with another half of a different die pair; MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing non-ASCII text using multibyte characters (q v ) Chapitre 20; Using a specialized character within a certain area to help out one of your other characters One example is to use IP-points on specialising in making implants, and giving this to another character that is specialised in fighting; Offspring or progeny of a jack and a mare; A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc; Offspring of male donkey and female horse; A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass; Once upon a time, someone decided the check numbers on small size currency were too small to read (my aging eyes would tend to agree) Back in those bad old days, the check numbers were printed in a font 0 6mm tall A decision was made in 1938 to change the digits to something a little larger (1mm) This was actually cause for a change in the series designation, as it constituted a change in the face design of the note Of course, the face and reverse aren't printed on the same day (or week, or possibly month or year), so it was inevitable that some notes would be printed with one size check number on one side, and the other size on the other These notes are called "mules" by collectors; A very stubborn person; a slipper that has no fitting around the heel; A secondary character created for the purpose of storing and identifying items Some mules also were made to help with fletching, alchemy, and/or cooking; A note printed from two plates which were not intended to be used together Ergo, an error produced in the printing process Also, a coin produced with two dies not intended for each other; into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; called also jenny and mule-jenny; A mule is a shoe or slipper which is open around the heel. Offspring of a male ass and a female horse. The less common cross of a female ass and a male horse is called a hinny. Most mules are sterile. The mule resembles the horse in height and in shape of neck and croup (rump); it resembles the ass in its long ears, small hooves, and short mane. The coat is usually brown or bay. Mules are 12-17.5 hands (50-70 in., 120-180 cm) high and weigh 600-1,500 lbs (275-700 kg). They have been used as pack animals for at least 3,000 years because of their ability to withstand hardships; A coin or token struck from mismatched dies A coin struck with the obverse of a New Zealand coin and the reverse of a Canadian coin is a mule; MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing non-ASCII text using multibyte characters (q v ) @xref{International}; It is the term for an offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; Modular Universal Laser Equipment; MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing multilingual non-ASCII text using multibyte characters (q v ) See section Q International Character Set Support; MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing non-ASCII text using multibyte characters (q v ) See section International Character Set Support; A coin struck from dies not originally intended to be used together Several of the 1813 tokens are mules; MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing non-ASCII text using multibyte characters (q v ) See section 19 International Character Set Support; sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing non-ASCII text using multibyte characters (q v ) See section 16 International Character Set Support; sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse a slipper that has no fitting around the heel; A coin struck from two dies not intended to be used together; A womans shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel; MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing multilingual non-ASCII text using multibyte characters (q v ) See section International Character Set Support; A coin with the current type on one side and the previous (and usually obsolete) type on the other side, or a piece struck from two dies that are not usually used together; astar
mule deer: A deer, found in western North America
mule skinner: muleteer, a driver of one or more mules
mule deer: A brownish-gray deer (Odocoileus hemionus) of western North America, having long mulelike ears, large branching antlers in the male, and a black-tipped tail. Also called black-tailed deer. Large-eared deer (Odocoileus hemionus) of western North America that lives alone or in small groups at high altitudes in summer and lower altitudes in winter. Mule deer stand 3-3.5 ft (90-105 cm) and are yellowish brown in summer, grayish brown in winter. The tail is white with a black tip, except on the black-tailed deer (O. h. columbianus), a Pacific Northwest subspecies. The male's antlers fork twice above a short tine near the base; a mature male normally has five tines on each antler. It is related to the white-tailed deer
mule deer: long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers
mule driver: one who herds mules
mule fat: California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer
mule killer: Any of several arthropods erroneously supposed to kill live stock, in the southern United States, by stinging or by being swallowed; A whip scorpion
mule killer: A walking- stick insect
mule killer: A mantis
mule killer: A wheel bug
mule's ears: balsamic-resinous herb with clumps of lanceolate leaves and stout leafy stems ending in large deep yellow flowers on long stalks; northwestern United States
kick like a mule: To have a very strong physical effect
This Russian drink tastes foul, but it kicks like a mule.
mulish: Characteristic of a mule; stubborn, obstinate, or intractable
spinning mule: A machine that spins thread from fibres
stubborn as a mule: Extremely stubborn
mulish: {a} like a mule, sullen, stubborn
drug mule: Someone who transports drugs illegally
as obstinate as a mule: very stubborn
mules: a slipper that has no fitting around the heel
mules: plural of mule
mulish: unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack
mulish: Like a mule; sullen; stubborn
mulish: refusing to do something or agree to something, in an unreasonable way = stubborn
mulish: {s} stubborn as a mule, obstinate, unwilling to yield or comply
mulishly: in a stubborn unregenerate manner; "she remained stubbornly in the same position"
mulishly: like a mule, stubbornly, in an unyielding manner
mulishly: In a mulish manner
mulishness: {i} stubbornness, unwillingness to yield or comply
mulishness: The characteristic of being mulish
spinning mule: Multiple-spindle spinning machine invented by Samuel Crompton (1779), which permitted large-scale manufacture of high-quality thread for the textile industry. Crompton's machine made it possible for a single operator to work more than 1,000 spindles simultaneously, and was capable of spinning fine as well as coarse yarn
stubborn as a mule: hard headed, stubborn
white-rayed mule's ears: herb with basal leaves and leafy hairy stems bearing solitary flower heads with white or pale cream rays; northwestern United States

mule

Turkish pronunciation

myul

Pronunciation

/ˈmyo͞ol/ /ˈmjuːl/

Etymology

[ 'myü(&)l ] (noun.) 13th century. From Middle English (reinforced by Anglo-Norman mul (masculine), mule (feminine)), from Old English mūl, all from Latin mūlus, from Proto-Indo-European *mukslós (cf. Late Latin muscellus 'young he-mule', Old Russian mŭškŭ 'mule', Ancient Greek (Phocian) mychlós 'he-ass').