Mute"ly, adv. Without uttering words or sounds; in a mute manner;
silently.
Mute"ness, n. The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.
{ Mu"tic (?), Mu"ti*cous (?), } a. [L. muticus, for mutilus. See
Mutilate.] (Bot. & Zoöl.) Without a point or pointed process; blunt.
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.
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. [Cf. F. mutilateur.] One who mutilates.
Mu"ti*lous (?), a. [L. mutilus. See Mutilate.] Mutilated; defective;
imperfect. [Obs.]