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Definition of Mutilete

Mu"ti*late (?), a. [L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. &?;, &?;. Cf. Mutton.] 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.

2. (Zoöl.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.

Mu"ti*late, n. (Zoöl.) A cetacean, or a sirenian.

Mu"ti*late (?), 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 hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.

2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho.
Addison.

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.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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