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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Form \Form\ (f[^o]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[^o]rmd); p. pr & vb n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr forma. See {Form}, n.] 1. To give form or shape to to frame; to construct; to make to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe. 2. To give a particular shape to to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust also to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. --Dryden. 3. To go to make up to act as constituent of to be the essential or constitutive elements of to answer for to make the shape of -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. --Burke. 4. To provide with a form as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. --Drayton. 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Forming \Form"ing\, n. The act or process of giving form or shape to anything as in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.
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