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Mule, Muil(l, Mul(l, n.² Also: mwle, muile, mwl(l, moill, mouil(l, moole. [e.m.E. moyle (1562, 1585), otherwise appar. chiefly or only Sc., F. mule.] A kind of soft shoe or slipper.Also comb. with -maker.(a) 1562–3 Edinb. B. Rec. III. 155.
The pair of mulis, pantonis, brotekynnis, and all vther wark pertenyng to the cordiner craft 1566 Facs. Nat. MSS. III. li. 1567 Anderson Collect. Mary II. 172.
Accumpanyit with thre more quhilks had thare cloaks, and mulis upon thair feet 1584 Edinb. Test. XIV. 77.
vij pair mules & schone price of the pair xxx s. 1586 Crim. Trials I. ii. 146.
The tyme of the executioun of the said murthour, ȝe tint ȝour mwlis [Digest Justic. Proc. muillis] 1595 Duncan App. Etym. 67.
Crepida, a pantoun or mule 1600 Reg. Privy C. VI. 857.
And Ruthven havand mulis he fell on his bak and cryit 1602 Colville Paraenese 116. 1661 Stirling Comm. Good 3.
For mules & working the buttones(b) a1585 Maitland Maitl. Q. ii. 41.
Thair schone of velwot and thair muillis [: stuillis] 1589 Treas. Acc. MS. 169 b.
Tua elne blak veluet to be four pair of muillis c1590 Fowler II. 25/17.
[They] with thair feit & edges of thair muiles batit on my face 1603 Philotus xix.
Lo, mistres, heir ȝour muillis [H. mooles], Put onȝour wylicote for it cuillis 1645 Aberd. Sheriff Ct. III. 42.
A pair buittes with muilles £10(c) 1593 Edinb. Test. XXV. 288.
Breikis short hois pantones moillis schone [etc.](d) a1570-86 Maitl. F. clxxviii. 96.
Thair mullis glitterane on thair feit 1590 Dundee B. Laws 390.
Schouns, single and dubbled buits, and muls single and baterit 1600 Treas. Acc. MS. 86 b.
Ane pair of mullis of purpour veluet pasmentit with siluer 1602 Tailor's Acc. Bk. A.28 b. 1607 Reg. Privy C. VII. 331. 1611 Melvill in McCrie Melville 446.
I laucht to sie thame now sett ouer the flocks Who came to cowrt with thair auld mullis and sockis 1612 Brechin Test. II. 220. 1642 Kirkcaldy Presb. 228.
Standing befoir the fyre with his coat off and his petticoat and his mulls of his feetecomb. 1658–1700 Greyfriars Interments 50, 363.
Mouillmaker, mouilmaker Ib. 108.
Mwlmaker Ib. 328.
Muilmaker 1691 Reg. Deeds (Durie) LXXV. 345.
James Hendersone muill maker in Edinburgh