Shape /(shāp)/

imp. Shaped; p. p. Shaped; p. pr. & vb. n. Shaping

1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

   I was shapen in iniquity.

   Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.

2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.

   To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor speed nor art avail, he shapes his course.

   Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And shape my foolishness to their desire.

3. To imagine; to conceive; to call forth (ideas). [archaic]

   Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not.

4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.

   When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to point.

   I will early shape me therefor.

1. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. [R.]

1. 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.

   He beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman.

2. That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.

   Before the gates three sat, On either side, a formidable shape.

3. A model; a pattern; a mold.
4. Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
5. Dress for disguise; guise. [Obs.]

   Look better on this virgin, and consider This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing In a Greekish dress.

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