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Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne.

To pick out such parts of as may serve a purpose; to mutilate; to pervert; as, to garble a quotation; to garble an account.

To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair. My late maimed limbs lack wonted might. Spenser. You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops. Shak.

or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate. Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail. Milton.

One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.

To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

One who mutilates.

Mutilated; defective; imperfect. [Obs.]

To form a picture or model of, as of something lost or mutilated; as, to restore a ruined building, city, or the like.

tout toothlike structures inserted along each edge, forming a sawlike organ with which it mutilates or kills its prey.

the wingless body of a lion. The awful ruins of the days of old . . . Or jasper tomb, or mutilated sphinx. Shelley.

uman body, as distinguished from the head and limbs; in sculpture, the trunk of a statue, mutilated of head and limbs; as, the torso of Hercules.