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To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a
particular form; to give proper form or figure to. |
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To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct;
as, to shape the course of a vessel. |
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To image; to conceive; to body forth. |
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To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange. |
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To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. |
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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. |
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That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a
being. |
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A model; a pattern; a mold. |
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Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or
conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality. |
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Dress for disguise; guise. |
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A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron,
etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar. |
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A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it
will receive when completely forged or fitted. |