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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Cadillac :: Cadillac (n.) A large pear, shaped like a flattened top, used chiefly for cooking..
Bursiform :: Bursiform (a.) Shaped like a purse.
Cake :: Cake (n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape..
Convexly :: Convexly (adv.) In a convex form; as, a body convexly shaped..
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform..
Mandoline :: Mandoline (n.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.
Shape :: Shape (v. i.) To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
Thimble :: Thimble (n.) Any thimble-shaped appendage or fixure.
Lambdoid :: Lambdoid (a.) Shaped like the Greek letter lambda (/); as, the lambdoid suture between the occipital and parietal bones of the skull..
Cake :: Cake (n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
Harpsichord :: Harpsichord (n.) A harp-shaped instrument of music set horizontally on legs, like the grand piano, with strings of wire, played by the fingers, by means of keys provided with quills, instead of hammers, for striking the strings. It is now superseded by the piano..
Canoe :: Canoe (n.) A boat used by rude nations, formed of trunk of a tree, excavated, by cutting of burning, into a suitable shape. It is propelled by a paddle or paddles, or sometimes by sail, and has no rudder..
Phillipsite :: Phillipsite (n.) A hydrous silicate of aluminia, lime, and soda, a zeolitic mineral commonly occurring in complex twin crystals, often cruciform in shape; -- called also christianite..
Calamary :: Calamary (n.) A cephalopod, belonging to the genus Loligo and related genera. There are many species. They have a sack of inklike fluid which they discharge from the siphon tube, when pursued or alarmed, in order to confuse their enemies. Their shell is a thin horny plate, within the flesh of the back, shaped very much like a quill pen. In America they are called squids. See Squid..
Zither :: Zither (n.) An instrument of music used in Austria and Germany. It has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [Not to be confounded with the old lute-shaped cittern, or cithern.].
Betty :: Betty (n.) A pear-shaped bottle covered round with straw, in which olive oil is sometimes brought from Italy; -- called by chemists a Florence flask..
Figure :: Figure (n.) To represent by a figure, as to form or mold; to make an image of, either palpable or ideal; also, to fashion into a determinate form; to shape..
Tongue-shaped :: Tongue-shaped (a.) Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf..
Furcular :: Furcular (a.) Shaped like a fork; furcate.
Quoit :: Quoit (n.) A flattened ring-shaped piece of iron, to be pitched at a fixed object in play; hence, any heavy flat missile used for the same purpose, as a stone, piece of iron, etc..
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