- A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass
and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny. - A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of
one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called
also hybrid. - A very stubborn person. - 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.