Shape

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Dress for disguise; guise.

II. Shape ·noun A model; a pattern; a mold.

III. Shape ·vi To Suit; to be adjusted or conformable.

IV. Shape ·noun That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.

V. Shape ·noun To Image; to Conceive; to body forth.

VI. Shape ·noun To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

VII. Shape ·noun A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.

VIII. Shape ·noun A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, ·etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.

IX. Shape ·noun Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.

X. Shape ·noun To Design; to Prepare; to Plan; to Arrange.

XI. Shape ·noun To adapt to a purpose; to Regulate; to Adjust; to Direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.

XII. Shape ·noun Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.