Definition: jenny

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jenny
     n : female donkey [syn: jennet, jenny ass]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Jenny \Jen"ny\, n.; pl. Jennies.
   1. A familiar or pet form of the proper name Jane.

   2. (Zo["o]l.) A familiar name of the European wren.

   Jenny ass (Zo["o]l.), a female ass.
Jenny \Jen"ny\, n. [A corruption of gin an engine; influenced by
   Jenny, the proper name. See Gin an engine, and cf.
   Ginny-carriage.]
   A machine for spinning a number of threads at once, -- used
   in factories.
Mule \Mule\ (m[=u]l), n. [F., a she-mule, L. mula, fem. of
   mulus; cf. Gr. my`klos, mychlo`s. Cf. AS. m[=u]l, fr. L.
   mulus. Cf. Mulatto.]
   1. (Zo["o]l.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated
      between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a
      she-ass. See Hinny.

   Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy,
         and proverbial for stubbornness.

   2. (Bot.) 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 (Zo["o]l.), a long-eared armadillo (Tatusia
      hybrida), native of Buenos Aires; -- called also mulita.
      See Illust. under Armadillo.

   Mule deer (Zo["o]l.), a large deer (Cervus, or Cariacus,
      macrotis) of the Western United States. The name refers
      to its long ears.

   Mule pulley (Mach.), 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.