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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having no horns.
  • noun An animal without horns, especially a cow.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Hornless: said of cattle.
  • noun Any cow: a colloquial abbreviation of muley cow.
  • noun Same as muley-saw.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See mulley.
  • noun (Sawmills) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate.
  • noun (Railroad) a car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Without horns.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[From Irish Gaelic maol (from Old Irish mael) or from Welsh moel, bald, hornless.]

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