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larity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body. Shak.

To mark with deformity; to injure or impair, as anything which is well formed, or excellent; to mar, or make defective, either the body or mind. Sin is a soil which blemisheth the beauty of thy soul. Brathwait.

A short, variously distorted foot; also, the deformity, usually congenital, which such a foot exhibits; talipes.

A short, distorted hand; also, the deformity of having such a hand.

Hair arranged to be worn on the head. The baldness, thinness, and . . . deformity of their hair is supplied by borders and combings. Jer. Taylor.

ining to one from birth; born with one; connate; constitutinal; natural; as, a congenital deformity. See Connate.

A condition of endemic or inherited idiocy, accompanied by physical degeneracy and deformity (usually with goiter), frequent in certain mountain valleys, esp. of the Alps.

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] "Strange defeatures in my face." Shak.

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.

The act of disfiguring, or the state of being disfigured; defacement; deformity; disfigurement. Gauden.

Disfigurement; deformity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.

e in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be disproportional to their understanding.

An unnatural deviation of shape or position of any part of the body producing visible deformity.

A deformity in which the urethra opens upon the top of the penis, instead of at its extremity.

instep is flattened so that the entire sole of the foot rests upon the ground; also, the deformity, usually congential, exhibited by such a foot; splayfoot.

A deformity of the penis, in which the urethra opens upon its under surface.

ollowed by an eruption of dark or yellowish prominent nodules, frequently producing great deformity. In one variety of the disease, anæsthesia of the skin is a prominent symptom. In addition there may be wasting of the muscles, falling out of the hair and nails, and distortion of the hands and feet with destruction of…

Any thing or person of unnatural or excessive ugliness, deformity, wickedness, or cruelty.