a. - Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
a. - Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean.
n. - A cetacean, or a sirenian.
v. t. - 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.
v. t. - To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero.