shape

SHAPE, verb transitive preterit tense shaped; participle passive shaped or shapen. 1. To form or create. I was shapen in iniquity. Psalms 51:1. 2. To mold or make into a particular form; to give form or figure to; as, to shape a garment. Grace shap'd her limbs, and beauty deck'd her face. Prior. 3. To mold; to cast; to regulate; to adjust; to adapt to a purpose. He shapes his plans or designs to the temper of the times. 4. To direct; as, to shape a course. 5. To image; to conceive. Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not. Shak. SHAPE, verb intransitive To square; to suit; to be adjusted. SHAPE, noun 1. Form or figure as constituted by lines and angles; as the shape of a horse or a tree; the shape of the head, hand or foot. 2. External appearance. He beat me grievously in the shape of a woman. Shak. 3. The form of the trunk of the human boky; as a clumsy shape; an elegant shape. 4. A being as endowed with form. Before the gates are sat, On either side, a formidable shape. Milton. 5. Idea; pattern. 6. Form. This application comes before the legislature in the shape of a memorial. 7. Manner.