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2. The flesh of a sheep.

The fat of roasted mutton or beef.

Swift.

3. A loose woman; a prostitute. [Obs.]

Mutton bird (Zoöl.), the Australian short-tailed petrel — Mutton chop, a rib of mutton for broiling, with the end of the bone at the smaller part chopped off. — Mutton fish (Zoöl.), the American eelpout. See Eelpout. — Mutton fist, a big brawny fist or hand. [Colloq.] Dryden. — Mutton monger, a pimp. [Low & Obs.] Chapman. — To return to one's muttons. [A translation of a phrase from a farce by De Brueys, revenons à nos moutons let us return to our sheep.] To return to one's topic, subject of discussion, etc. [Humorous]

I willingly return to my muttons.

H. R. Haweis.

Muttony
(Mut"ton*y) a. Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.

Mutual
(Mu"tu*al) a. [F. mutuel, L. mutuus, orig., exchanged, borrowed, lent; akin to mutare to change. See Mutable.]

1. Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.

Conspiracy and mutual promise.

Sir T. More.

Happy in our mutual help,
And mutual love.

Milton.

A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters.

G. Eliot.

2. Possessed, experienced, or done by two or more persons or things at the same time; common; joint; as, mutual happiness; a mutual effort. Burke.

A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

Bentley.

This use of mutual as synonymous with common is inconsistent with the idea of interchange, or reciprocal relation, which properly belongs to it; but the word has been so used by many writers of high authority. The present tendency is toward a careful discrimination.

Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors?

P. Harrison.

Mutual insurance, agreement among a number of persons to insure each other against loss, as by fire, death, or accident. — Mutual insurance company, one which does a business of insurance on the mutual principle, the policy holders sharing losses and profits pro rata.

Syn. — Reciprocal; interchanged; common.

Mutualism
(Mu"tu*al*ism) n. (Ethics) The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare. F. Harrison. H. Spencer. Mallock.

Mutuality
(Mu`tu*al"i*ty) n. [Cf. F. mutualité.]

1. The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.

2. (Law) Reciprocity of consideration. Wharton.

Mutually
(Mu"tu*al*ly) adv. In a mutual manner.