2. (Zoöl.)
Defn: Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
MUTILATE
Mu"ti*late, n. (Zoöl.)
Defn: A cetacean, or a sirenian.
MUTILATE
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.
MUTILATION
Mu`ti*la"tion, n. Etym: [L. mutilatio: cf. F. mutilation.]
Defn: The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.
MUTILATOR
Mu"ti*la"tor, n. Etym: [Cf. F. mutilateur.]