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The generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.

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The generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.

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A hybrid plant.

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A stubborn person.

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A person paid to smuggle drugs.

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A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.

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A MMORPG character, or NPC companion in a tabletop RPG, used mainly to store extra inventory for the owner's primary character.

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Any of a group of cocktails involving ginger ale or ginger beer, citrus juice, and various liquors.

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A kind of triangular sail for a yacht.

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A kind of cotton-spinning machine.

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To smuggle (illegal drugs).

The average height of a mule is 122 hands.

It was barely enough to water a mule at a time.

The mule lurched forward and the others followed, jerking the wagon into action.

The nilgai is about the size of a mule.

She turned the horse and followed his mule up a dune, reining in at his side.

You're as stubborn as a mule.

As a mule market Missouri has no rival.

For this purpose the sure-footed mule is invaluable.

As time went on the travellers (with whatever object) who used the great alpine passes could not put up any longer with the bad old mule paths.

The fifth road, IsfahanAhvaz, 280 rn., is the old mule track provided with some bridges, and improved by freeing it of boulders and stones, &c., at a total cost of 5500.

The ass is also small and strong; and the mule, bred in large numbers, is of excellent quality, and both as a transport animal and as a mount is preferred to the horse.

Now if you stay a few days in Yellowstone, you will always see bison and elk and quite likely mule deer, pronghorn antelope, bighorn sheep, and both grizzly and black bear, as well as many small animals and birds of all sizes.

Try to find the 20 Mule Team Borax, both for its quality and its large size (76 ounces).

At his insistence, she recorded a cover version of a Jimmie Rodgers classic, Mule Skinner Blues.

He is called the Mule, and he poses a serious threat to the First Foundation, which they eventually overcome.

But because psychohistory works on statistical people en masse, it is presumed not to work against an anomalous person such as the Mule, who was a mutant.

Sure, she could be mule headed, and sometimes she was moody, but was she that bad?

Leaving his mule to the abbey, and giving away his worldly clothes to a beggar, he kept his watch in the church during the night of the 24th-25th of March, and placed on the Lady altar his sword and dagger.

Louis as the largest horse and mule market in the world was maintained, the volume of business in 1919 being $50,000,000.

It is an important horse and mule market, and handles much tobacco.

Black-tailed mule deer are still favourite game for sportsmen.

The most remarkable military events of this period were (1) the siege and destruction of the oasis of Zaatcha, where the inhabitants, displeased by an alteration in the tax on palms, rose at the voice of a fanatic named Bu-Zian; (2) the ineffectual campaign of Marshal Saint Arnaud in Little Kabylia, where the tribes rose at the instigation of Bu-Magla (" the mule man ") in 1851.

The mule is more generally used in every part of the country, being hardier, more intelligent and better adapted for service as a draft and pack animal.

The larger animals of Canada are the musk ox and the caribou of the barren lands, both having their habitat in the far north; the caribou of the woods, found in all the provinces except in Price Edward Island; the moose, with an equally wide range in the wooded country; the Virginia deer, in one or other of its varietal forms, common to all the southern parts; the black-tailed deer or mule deer and allied forms, on the western edge of the plains and in British Columbia; the pronghorn antelope on the plains, and a small remnant of the once plentiful bison found in northern Alberta and Mackenzie, now called " wood buffalo."

The demand for cloths which require careful handling and regularity in weaving has helped to develop the supply of ring yarns which will stand the strain of the loom better than mule twists.

The various Indian markets take largely of 40 8 mule twist and in various proportions of 30 8 mule, water twists, two-folds grey and bleached, fine Egyptian counts and dyed yarns.

China also takes 40 8 mule, water twists and twofolds.

Among domesticated animals are to be found the horse, mule, donkey, cattle, sheep and goats, dogs, fowls and pigs, ducks and geese.

Dressed in grey like a pilgrim, and accompanied by five or six trustworthy servants, he would set out on his interminable travels, "ambling along on a good mule."

According to another account, a mule on which Oxylus rode had lost an eye.

The whole territory is crossed by camel and mule paths between the sea and the high plateau, and between the various centres of population.

A man may know that mules are sterile and that the beast before him is a mule, and yet believe her to be in foal " not viewing the several truths in connexion."

White-tailed deer and especially black-tails are found on the high Sierra; the mule deer, too, although its habitat is now mainly east of the range, on the plateau, is also met with.

The white-tailed Virginia deer inhabits the bottom lands and the mule deer the more open country.

Amongst the domestic animals are the buffalo, the Syrian camel, and a mule camel, bred from a Bactrian sire and Syrian mother.

The city is in a rich sugar-cane and fruit country, is a large cotton and mule and horse market, and has division shops of the Seaboard Air Line railway.

To raise funds he proclaimed, by bull of the iith of April 1389, a jubilee for every thirty-three years, but before the celebration could be held he died of injuries caused by a fall from his mule.

Horse and mule breeding are carried on to a limited extent, and since the opening of the far South more attention has been given to sheep. Goats and swine are raised in small numbers on the large estates, but in Chiloe swine-raising is one of the chief occupations of the people.

For this purpose a horse or mule is killed, and the carcase surrounded with palisades to which the condors are soon attracted by the prospect of food, for the weight of evidence seems to favour the opinion that those vultures owe their knowledge of the presence of carrion more to sight than to scent.

The mule thrives in every condition of climate, is fever-proof, travels over the most difficult mountain passes with absolute security, and can carry with ease a load of 200 lb.

In the open country the mule deer, the pronghorn antelope and the coyote are found, and the bison formerly ranged over the north-eastern part of the state; the side-striped groundsquirrel, Townsend's spermophile, the desert pack-rat and the desert pack-rabbit inhabit the flat country.

That mares used in mule breeding are liable to be infected is still widely believed, but irrefragable evidence of the influence of the ass persisting, as Agassiz assumed, is conspicuous by its absence.

In all these establishments, after two or three crossings of the mare and ass, the breeders cause the mare to be put to a horse; yet a pure-bred foal has never been produced resembling either an ass or a mule."

A peculiar vegetation, consisting mainly of low shrubs with fleshy glaucous leaves (mule crithnioides, &c.), covers the swamps of the Guadalquivir and the salt-marshes of the south-west coast.

The patience of the ass, the high spirit of the horse, the obstinacy of the mule, have long been proverbial.

She rubbed each mule down with the burlap sack and wiped the nostrils of each mule with a dampened cloth before allowing herself a few swallows of tepid water.

He kicked the mule into motion and started out across the sand.

Davis rolled sluggishly with the sway of his mule, staring disinterestedly at the mule in front of him.

Mule types worn by women were of embroidered brocade, silk, velvet, or kid.

And, to speak truly, every mule stumbled over the two, and the whole cavalcade was piled up in a heap.