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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy,
           and proverbial for stubbornness.
           [1913 Webster]
  
     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}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     3. A very stubborn person.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     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}.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     5. A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
  
     Syn: mules, scuff, scuffs.
          [WordNet 1.5]
  
     {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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  mule
       n 1: sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse
       2: a slipper that has no fitting around the heel [syn: {mules},
           {scuff}, {scuffs}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  86 Moby Thesaurus words for "mule":
     Cape Colored, Eurasian, Siberian husky, ass, bastard,
     beast of burden, bigot, bitter-ender, bullethead, camel, cattalo,
     citrange, cross, crossbred, crossbreed, diehard, dogmatist, donkey,
     draft animal, dromedary, elephant, fanatic, griffe, half blood,
     half-bred, half-breed, half-caste, hardnose, high yellow, hinny,
     horse, husky, hybrid, intransigeant, intransigent, jennet, jenny,
     ladino, last-ditcher, liger, llama, malamute, manlike, manly,
     masculine, maverick, mestee, mestiza, mestizo, metis, metisse,
     mixblood, mixed-blood, mongrel, mulatto, mustee, octoroon, ox,
     pack horse, perverse fool, pighead, plumcot, positivist, purist,
     quadroon, quintroon, reindeer, sambo, silkworm, sledge dog, spider,
     spinner, spinning frame, spinning jenny, spinster, standpat,
     standpatter, stickler, sumpter, sumpter horse, sumpter mule,
     tangelo, throstle, tigon, zebrass, zebrule
  
  

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  MULE
       MULtilingual Enhancement of GNU EMACS (EMACS, GNU)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [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}.
       
          Latest version: 2.3.
       
          {Home (ftp://etlport.etl.go.jp/pub/mule)}.
       
          (1996-01-28)
       
       

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Mule
     (Heb. pered), so called from the quick step of the animal or its
     power of carrying loads. It is not probable that the Hebrews
     bred mules, as this was strictly forbidden in the law (Lev.
     19:19), although their use was not forbidden. We find them in
     common use even by kings and nobles (2 Sam. 18:9; 1 Kings 1:33;
     2 Kings 5:17; Ps. 32:9). They are not mentioned, however, till
     the time of David, for the word rendered "mules" (R.V.
     correctly, "hot springs") in Gen. 36:24 (yemim) properly denotes
     the warm springs of Callirhoe, on the eastern shore of the Dead
     Sea. In David's reign they became very common (2 Sam. 13:29; 1
     Kings 10:25).
     
       Mules are not mentioned in the New Testament. Perhaps they had
     by that time ceased to be used in Palestine.
     

















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