a. [ L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. Cf. Mutton. ] 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. (Zool.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. [ 1913 Webster ]
v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mutilated p. pr. & vb. n. Mutilating ]1. To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to disfigure; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]
2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. [ 1913 Webster ]
Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
Mutilated gear, Mutilated wheel (Mach.), a gear wheel from a portion of whose periphery the cogs are omitted. It is used for giving intermittent movements. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. [ L. mutilatio: cf. F. mutilation. ] The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part. [ 1913 Webster ]
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