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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.

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.

Mu`ti*la"tion (?), 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.

Mu"ti*la"tor (?), n.


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