Word Meanings - MISSHAPE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.
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- DEFORMER
One who deforms. - DEFORMATION
1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 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. Ps. li. 5. Grace shaped her limbs, and - MONSTROUS
1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - DEFORMITY
deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an - UNNATURAL
Not natural; contrary, or not conforming, to the order of nature; being without natural traits; as, unnatural crimes. Syn. -- See Factitious. -- Un*nat"u*ral*ly, adv. -- Un*nat"u*ral*ness, n. - SHAPELESS
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope. - DEFORM
1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above - UNNATURALIZE
To make unnatural. Hales. - MONSTROUSLY
In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in love." Dryden. - MISSHAPEN
Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n. - DEFORMED
Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n. - SHAPELINESS
The quality or state of being shapely. - MISSHAPE
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope. - MONSTROUSNESS
The state or quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary. Shak. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - SWORD-SHAPED
Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. - FIDDLE-SHAPED
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray. - WIDMANSTATTEN FIGURES; WIDMANSTAETTEN FIGURES
Certain figures appearing on etched meteoric iron; -- so called after A. B. Widmanstätten, of Vienna, who first described them in 1808. See the Note and Illust. under Meteorite. - PEAR-SHAPED
Of the form of a pear. - EGG-SHAPED
Resembling an egg in form; ovoid. - LATH-SHAPED
Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections. - VASE-SHAPED
Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot. - SHIPSHAPE
Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly. Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for - URN-SHAPED
Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.