| mule | 1. <zoology> A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny. Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy, and proverbial for stubbornness. 2. <botany> 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, 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. Origin: F, a she-mule, L. Mula, fem. Of mulus; cf. Gr, . Cf. AS. Ml, fr. L. Mulus. Cf. Mulatto. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mule-spinner's cancer | Carcinoma of the scrotum or adjacent skin exposed to oil, observed in some workers in cotton-spinning mills. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mules' operation | Evisceration of the eyeball followed by the insertion within the sclera of a spherical prosthesis to support an artificial eye. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Mules, Philip | <person> English ophthalmologist, 1843-1905. See: Mules' operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| mulewort | <botany> A fern of the genus Hemionitis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| mule-spinners' cancer |
a form of squamous cell carcinoma affecting mule spinners in the cotton-spinning industry, due to continued soaking of the clothes and abdomen by arsenic, tar, and carcinogenic oils; it is now rare.
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| Mules' operation |
evisceration of the eyeball, with insertion of an artificial vitreous.
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| mule-spinners' c. |
a form of squamous cell carcinoma affecting mule spinners in the cotton-spinning industry, due to continued soaking of the clothes and abdomen by arsenic, tar, and carcinogenic oils; it is now rare.
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| mule-spinners' d. |
warts or ulcers of the skin, especially of the scrotum, which tend to become malignant (see mule-spinners' cancer, under cancer); so called because they were found chiefly among the operators of spinning mules in cotton mills.
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| Mules' o. |
evisceration of the eyeball, with insertion of artificial vitreous.
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| mule | sterile offspring of a male donkey and a female horse |
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| mule | a slipper that has no fitting around the heel |
| mule | long-eared deer of western North America with two-pronged antlers |
| mule | a worker who drives mules |
| mule | California shrub with slender leafy shoots that are important browse for mule deer |
| mule | a worker who drives mules |
| mule | balsamic-resinous herb with clumps of lanceolate leaves and stout leafy stems ending in large deep yellow flowers on long stalks |
| mule | a slipper that has no fitting around the heel |
| mule | a worker who drives mules |
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