Bible Dictionaries
Mule

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; - called also hybrid.

(2):

(n.) A very stubborn person.

(3):

(n.) 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.

(4):

(n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Mule'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​m/mule.html. 1828.