mule /ˈmju(ə)l/
 騾子;雜種;執拗的人


 mule /ˈmju(ə)l/ 名詞
 騾,為毒品販跑腿送貨的人


 Mule n.
 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.
 Note: ☞ Mules are much used as draught animals.  They are hardy, and proverbial for stubbornness.
 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.
 3. A very stubborn person.
 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.
 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
      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]


 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.