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a. [ L. acutus sharp + E. lobe. ] (Bot.) Having acute lobes, as some leaves. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Destitute of beauty. Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To deprive of utility; to render useless. [ R. ] Mrs. Browning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ See Evolution. ] (Biol.) The faculty possessed by all substances capable of self-nourishment of manifesting the nutritive acts by changes of form, of volume, or of structure. Syd. Soc. Lex. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. futilis that easily pours out, that easily lets loose, vain, worthless, from the root of fundere to pour out: cf. F. futile. See Fuse, v. t. ] 1. Talkative; loquacious; tattling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Talkers and futile persons. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of no importance; having no useful purpose; useless; vain; worthless; pointless. “Futile theories.” I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

His reasoning . . . was singularly futile. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a futile manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. futilitas: cf. F. futilité. ] 1. The quality of being talkative; talkativeness; loquaciousness; loquacity. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The quality of producing no valuable effect, or of coming to nothing; uselessness. [ 1913 Webster ]

The futility of this mode of philosophizing. Whewell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Futile; trifling. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a gouty manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inutilis: cf. F. inutile. See In- not, Utile. ] Useless; unprofitable. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inutilitas: cf. F. inutilité. ] Uselessness; the quality of being unprofitable; unprofitableness; as, the inutility of vain speculations and visionary projects. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A cetacean, or a sirenian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mutilatus, p. p. of mutilare to mutilate, fr. mutilus maimed; cf. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. Cf. Mutton. ] 1. Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated. Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) Having finlike appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 disfigure; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To destroy or remove a material part of, so as to render imperfect; as, to mutilate the orations of Cicero. [ 1913 Webster ]

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. 1. badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.
Syn. -- maimed. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

3. damaged, often deliberately; -- of compositions; as, a mutilated text. Opposite of undamaged or intact.
Syn. -- mangled, mutilated. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. mutilateur. ] One who mutilates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mutilus. See Mutilate. ] Mutilated; defective; imperfect. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of spiral-shelled cephalopods.
Syn. -- family Nautilidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Paleon.) A fossil nautilus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Nautilus + -oid: cf. F. nautiloïde. ] (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the nautilus; shaped like a nautilus shell. -- n. A mollusk, or shell, of the genus Nautilus or family Nautilidae. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. E. Nautiluses L. Nautili [ L., fr. Gr. nayti`los a seaman, sailor, a kind of shellfish which was supposed to be furnished with a membrane which served as a sail; fr. nay^s ship. See Nave of a church. ] 1. (Zool.) The only existing genus of tetrabranchiate cephalopods. About four species are found living in the tropical Pacific, but many other species are found fossil. The shell is spiral, symmetrical, and chambered, or divided into several cavities by simple curved partitions, which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The head of the animal bears numerous simple tapered arms, or tentacles, arranged in groups, but not furnished with suckers. The siphon, unlike, that of ordinary cephalopods, is not a closed tube, and is not used as a locomotive organ, but merely serves to conduct water to and from the gill cavity, which contains two pairs of gills. The animal occupies only the outer chamber of the shell; the others are filled with gas. It creeps over the bottom of the sea, not coming to the surface to swim or sail, as was formerly imagined. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The argonaut; -- also called paper nautilus. See Argonauta, and Paper nautilus, under Paper. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A variety of diving bell, the lateral as well as vertical motions of which are controlled, by the occupants. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as overutilization. [ Chiefly Brit. ]
Syn. -- overexploitation, overuse, overutilization. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. Same as overutilize. [ Chiefly Brit. ] [ PJC ]

n. exploitation to the point of diminishing returns.
Syn. -- overexploitation, overuse, overutilisation. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

v. t. To exploit to the point of diminishing returns; to use excessively.
Syn. -- overexploit, overuse, overutilise. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ L. rutilans, p. pr. of rutilare to have a reddish glow, fr. rutilus red: cf. F. rutilant. ] Having a reddish glow; shining. [ 1913 Webster ]

Parchments . . . colored with this rutilant mixture. Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. [ L. rutilare, rutilatum. ] To shine; to emit rays of light. [ Obs. ] Ure. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. rutilus red, inclining to golden yellow. ] (Min.) A mineral usually of a reddish brown color, and brilliant metallic adamantine luster, occurring in tetragonal crystals. In composition it is titanium dioxide, like octahedrite and brookite. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) Any species of lamellicorn beetles belonging to Rutila and allied genera, as the spotted grapevine beetle (Pelidnota punctata). [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. sutilis, fr. suere to sew: cf. F. sutile. ] Done by stitching. [ R. ] Boswell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. utilis, fr. uti to use: cf. F. utile. See Use, v. t. ] Profitable; useful. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Utility. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to utility; consisting in utility; &unr_;iming at utility as distinguished from beauty, ornament, etc.; sometimes, reproachfully, evincing, or characterized by, a regard for utility of a lower kind, or marked by a sordid spirit; as, utilitarian narrowness; a utilitarian indifference to art. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Of or pertaining to utilitarianism; supporting utilitarianism; as, the utilitarian view of morality; the Utilitarian Society. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who holds the doctrine of utilitarianism. [ 1913 Webster ]

The utilitarians are for merging all the particular virtues into one, and would substitute in their place the greatest usefulness, as the alone principle to which every question respecting the morality of actions should be referred. Chalmers. [ 1913 Webster ]

But what is a utilitarian? Simply one who prefers the useful to the useless; and who does not? Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The doctrine that the greatest happiness of the greatest number should be the end and aim of all social and political institutions. Bentham. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The doctrine that virtue is founded in utility, or that virtue is defined and enforced by its tendency to promote the highest happiness of the universe. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The doctrine that utility is the sole standard of morality, so that the rectitude of an action is determined by its usefulness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. utilite, F. utilité, L. utilitas, fr. utilis useful. See Utile. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines. [ 1913 Webster ]

The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Polit. Econ.) Adaptation to satisfy the desires or wants; intrinsic value. See Note under Value, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

Value in use is utility, and nothing else, and in political economy should be called by that name and no other. F. A. Walker. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Happiness; the greatest good, or happiness, of the greatest number, -- the foundation of utilitarianism. J. S. Mill. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Usefulness; advantageous; benefit; profit; avail; service. -- Utility, Usefulness. Usefulness has an Anglo-Saxon prefix, utility is Latin; and hence the former is used chiefly of things in the concrete, while the latter is employed more in a general and abstract sense. Thus, we speak of the utility of an invention, and the usefulness of the thing invented; of the utility of an institution, and the usefulness of an individual. So beauty and utility (not usefulness) are brought into comparison. Still, the words are often used interchangeably. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being utilized; as, the utilizable products of the gas works. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. utilization. ] The act of utilizing, or the state of being utilized. [ 1913 Webster ]