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Mule vs Mure - What's the difference?

mule | mure |

As a noun mule

is mouth.

As a verb mure is

to die.

mule

English

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Etymology 1

From Middle English (reinforced by (etyl) mul (masculine), mule (feminine)), from (etyl) 'he-ass').

Noun

(en noun)
  • A generally sterile male or female hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse.
  • A generally sterile hybrid offspring of any two species of animals.
  • A hybrid plant.
  • (informal) A stubborn person.
  • (slang) A person paid to smuggle drugs.
  • (numismatics) A coin or medal minted with obverse and reverse designs not normally seen on the same piece, either intentionally or in error.
  • (gaming) A character on an MMORPG used mainly to store extra inventory of the owner's primary character.
  • * 2007 , David L. McClard, Verotopia Online: The MMORPG of the Century , Xlibris (2007), ISBN 9781425772895, page 89:
    • He was in the middle of organizing his massive stash of rare and exquisite bounty, all kept safely in the inventory cache of a mule , an entirely separate character which he paid a monthly fee to maintain exclusively for that purpose.
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    • Synonyms
    * See also
    Derived terms
    * muling * mulish * kick like a mule * stubborn as a mule
    See also
    * ass * donkey * hinny (male horse X female donkey) * horse

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shoe that has no fitting or strap around the heel, but which covers the foot.

    • mure

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) wall
    • (Shakespeare)
    No, no; he cannot long hold out these pangs.
    Th' incessant care and labour of his mind
    Hath wrought the mure that should confine it in
  • :— Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part II, [IV, 4], line 2870
  • (obsolete) husks of fruit from which the juice has been squeezed. Perhaps an old spelling of myrrh

    • References

    * Meaning "Husks of fruit": 1949', John Dover Wilson (compiler), ' Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose , Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. From Wright's Dialect Dict.

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (obsolete) mural (as a postmodifier)

    • Verb

  • (obsolete) to wall in or fortify
  • (obsolete) To enclose or imprison within walls.
    • (Spenser)
    The five kings are mured in a cave. — John. x. (Heading).

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