Definition of shape

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Shape (n.) To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel..

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Fusil :: Fusil (n.) A bearing of a rhomboidal figure; -- named from its shape, which resembles that of a spindle..
Nicotiana :: Nicotiana (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic solanaceous herbs, with viscid foliage and funnel-shaped blossoms. Several species yield tobacco. See Tobacco..
Acinaciform :: Acinaciform (a.) Scimeter-shaped; as, an acinaciform leaf..
Gill :: Gill (n.) The radiating, gill-shaped plates forming the under surface of a mushroom..
Culiciform :: Culiciform (a.) Gnat-shaped.
Tunicated :: Tunicated (a.) Having each joint buried in the preceding funnel-shaped one, as in certain antennae of insects..
Racket-tail :: Racket-tail (n.) Any one of several species of humming birds of the genus Steganura, having two of the tail feathers very long and racket-shaped..
Unshape :: Unshape (v. t.) To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange..
Proteus :: Proteus (n.) A sea god in the service of Neptune who assumed different shapes at will. Hence, one who easily changes his appearance or principles..
Carrot :: Carrot (n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color..
Arrowhead :: Arrowhead (n.) An aquatic plant of the genus Sagittaria, esp. S. sagittifolia, -- named from the shape of the leaves..
Vorticella :: Vorticella (n.) Any one of numerous species of ciliated Infusoria belonging to Vorticella and many other genera of the family Vorticellidae. They have a more or less bell-shaped body with a circle of vibrating cilia around the oral disk. Most of the species have slender, contractile stems, either simple or branched..
Beaked :: Beaked (a.) Having a beak or a beaklike point; beak-shaped.
Lentoid :: Lentoid (a.) Having the form of a lens; lens-shaped.
Xanthidium :: Xanthidium (n.) A genus of minute unicellular algae of the desmids. These algae have a rounded shape and are armed with glochidiate or branched aculei. Several species occur in ditches, and others are found fossil in flint or hornstone..
Fashioner :: Fashioner (n.) One who fashions, forms, ar gives shape to anything..
Shape :: Shape (n.) To image; to conceive; to body forth.
Unformed :: Unformed (a.) Unorganized; without definite shape or structure; as, an unformed, or unorganized, ferment..
Cuneated :: Cuneated (a.) Wedge-shape.
Arch Stone :: Arch stone () A wedge-shaped stone used in an arch; a voussoir.
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