Definition of shape

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Shape (n.) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar..

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Hood :: Hood (n.) The hood-shaped upper petal of some flowers, as of monkshood; -- called also helmet..
Misshapen :: Misshapen (a.) Having a bad or ugly form.
Hopper :: Hopper (n.) A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car..
Carrot :: Carrot (n.) The esculent root of cultivated varieties of the plant, usually spindle-shaped, and of a reddish yellow color..
Boast :: Boast (v. t.) To shape roughly as a preparation for the finer work to follow; to cut to the general form required.
Block :: Block (n.) To shape on, or stamp with, a block; as, to block a hat..
Penguin :: Penguin (n.) The egg-shaped fleshy fruit of a West Indian plant (Bromelia Pinguin) of the Pineapple family; also, the plant itself, which has rigid, pointed, and spiny-toothed leaves, and is used for hedges..
Corymb :: Corymb (n.) Any flattish flower cluster, whatever be the order of blooming, or a similar shaped cluster of fruit..
Apricot :: Apricot (n.) A fruit allied to the plum, of an orange color, oval shape, and delicious taste; also, the tree (Prunus Armeniaca of Linnaeus) which bears this fruit. By cultivation it has been introduced throughout the temperate zone..
Quillwort :: Quillwort (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves..
Knuckle :: Knuckle (n.) A convex portion of a vessel's figure where a sudden change of shape occurs, as in a canal boat, where a nearly vertical side joins a nearly flat bottom..
Shipshape :: Shipshape (a.) Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly..
Ancony :: Ancony (n.) A piece of malleable iron, wrought into the shape of a bar in the middle, but unwrought at the ends..
Gad :: Gad (n.) A pointed or wedge-shaped instrument of metal, as a steel wedge used in mining, etc..
Arch :: Arch (n.) A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.
Chip :: Chip (v. t.) To cut small pieces from; to diminish or reduce to shape, by cutting away a little at a time; to hew..
Clean :: Clean (superl.) Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs..
Shaped :: Shaped (p. p.) of Shap.
Fiddle :: Fiddle (n.) A kind of dock (Rumex pulcher) with fiddle-shaped leaves; -- called also fiddle dock.
Matrix :: Matrix (n.) The cavity in which anything is formed, and which gives it shape; a die; a mold, as for the face of a type..
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