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Stirrup :: Stirrup (v. i.) Any piece resembling in shape the stirrup of a saddle, and used as a support, clamp, etc. See Bridle iron..

Shear :: Shear (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4..

Formation :: Formation (n.) The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping.

Haliotoid :: Haliotoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Haliotis; ear-shaped.

Botuliform :: Botuliform (a.) Having the shape of a sausage.

Sagittate :: Sagittate (a.) Shaped like an arrowhead; triangular, with the two basal angles prolonged downward..

Broach :: Broach (n.) To shape roughly, as a block of stone, by chiseling with a coarse tool..

Anaplasty :: Anaplasty (n.) The art of operation of restoring lost parts or the normal shape by the use of healthy tissue.

Coniform :: Coniform (a.) Cone-shaped; conical.

Salver-shaped :: Salver-shaped (a.) Tubular, with a spreading border. See Hypocraterimorphous..

Form :: Form (n.) To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part..

Dress :: Dress (v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish..

Aiguille :: Aiguille (n.) A needle-shaped peak.

Caperberry :: Caperberry (n.) The small olive-shaped berry of the European and Oriental caper, said to be used in pickles and as a condiment..

Cashew :: Cashew (n.) A tree (Anacardium occidentale) of the same family which the sumac. It is native in tropical America, but is now naturalized in all tropical countries. Its fruit, a kidney-shaped nut, grows at the extremity of an edible, pear-shaped hypocarp, about three inches long..

Homoplasmy :: Homoplasmy (n.) Resemblance between different plants or animals, in external shape, in general habit, or in organs, which is not due to descent from a common ancestor, but to similar surrounding circumstances..

Virgalieu :: Virgalieu (n.) A valuable kind of pear, of an obovate shape and with melting flesh of delicious flavor; -- more properly called White Doyenne..

Protean :: Protean (a.) Exceedingly variable; readily assuming different shapes or forms; as, an amoeba is a protean animalcule..

Pyrula :: Pyrula (n.) A genus of large marine gastropods. having a pear-shaped shell. It includes the fig-shells. See Illust. in Appendix.

Palmated :: Palmated (a.) Having the shape of the hand; resembling a hand with the fingers spread.

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