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otton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny. Mule armadillo (Zoöl.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia hybrida), native of Buenos Ayres; -- called also mulita. See Illust. under Armadillo. -- Mule deer (Zoöl.), a large deer (Cervus, or Cariacus, macrotis) of the W…

Any of several arthropods erroneously supposed to kill live stock, in the southern United States, by stinging or by being swallowed; as:

See Mule, 4.

One who drives mules.

A fern of the genus Hemionitis.

A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate. Muley axle (Railroad), a car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals. Forney.

An ornament, gem, or scroll, or a package containing a relic, etc., worn as a charm or preservative against evils or mischief, such as diseases and witchcraft, and generally inscribed with mystic forms or characters.

Of or pertaining to an amulet; operating as a charm.

A general name for coloring matter of plants other than chlorophyll, especially that of petals.

A small cyme, or one of very few flowers.

To dissemble. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A dissembler. [Obs.]

To emulate. [Obs.] "Emuled of many." Spenser.

A set or prescribed model; a formula. [Obs.] Johnson.

A little leaf bud, as the plumule between the cotyledons.

A small germ.

A little hook.

A limulus.

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.

A little raceme.