*mule*

a. Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; color + &unr_; matter. ] (Bot.) A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. L. cymula a tender sprout, dim. of cyna. See Cyme. ] (Bot.) A small cyme, or one of very few flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ F. dissimuler. See Dissimulate. ] To dissemble. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A dissembler. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ F. émuler. See Emulate. ] To emulate. [ Obs. ] “Emuled of many.” Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] A set or prescribed model; a formula. [ Obs. ] Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. gemmula, dim. of gemma: cf. F. gemmule. See Gem. ] 1. (Bot.) (a) A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons. (b) One of the buds of mosses. (c) One of the reproductive spores of algæ. (d) An ovule. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Biol.) (a) A bud produced in generation by gemmation. (b) One of the imaginary granules or atoms which, according to Darwin's hypothesis of pangenesis, are continually being thrown off from every cell or unit, and circulate freely throughout the system, and when supplied with proper nutriment multiply by self-division and ultimately develop into cells like those from which they were derived. They are supposed to be transmitted from the parent to the offspring, but are often transmitted in a dormant state during many generations and are then developed. See Pangenesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. fr. germ. ] (Biol.) A small germ. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. hamulus. ] A little hook. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. ] (Zool.) A limulus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F., a she-mule, L. mula, fem. of mulus; cf. Gr. my`klos, mychlo`s. Cf. AS. mūl, 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 ]

☞ 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 ]

n. See Mule, 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

. Any of several arthropods erroneously supposed to kill live stock, in the southern United States, by stinging or by being swallowed; as: (a) A whip scorpion. [ Florida ] (b) A walking-stick insect. [ Texas ] (c) A mantis. (d) A wheel bug. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ F. muletier, fr. mulet a mule, dim. fr. L. mulus. ] One who drives mules. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A fern of the genus Hemionitis. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Sawmills) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate. [ 1913 Webster ]

Muley axle (Railroad), a car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals. Forney. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. See Mulley. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. plumula, dim. of pluma a feather; cf. F. plumule. ] 1. (Bot.) The first bud, or gemmule, of a young plant; the bud, or growing point, of the embryo, above the cotyledons. See Illust. of Radicle. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A down feather. (b) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather. (c) One of the featherlike scales of certain male butterflies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A little raceme. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Dim. fr. sperm. ] (Physiol.) A sperm cell. Haeckel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) Same as Squamula. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. [ L. temulentia. ] Intoxication; inebriation; drunkenness. [ R. ] “Their temulency.” Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. temulentus. ] Intoxicated; drunken. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Somewhat temulent; addicted to drink. [ R. ] R. Junius. [ 1913 Webster ]