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shaped |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shape \Shape\ (sh[=a]p), v. t. [imp. {Shaped} (sh[=a]pt); p. p. {Shaped} or {Shapen} (sh[=a]p"'n); p. pr & vb n. {Shaping}.] [OE. shapen, schapen, AS sceapian The p. p. shapen is from the strong verb AS scieppan scyppan sceppan p. p. sceapen. See {Shape}, n.] 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 beauty decked her face. --Prior. 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. --Denham. Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And shape my foolishness to their desire. --Prior. 3. To image; to conceive; to body forth. Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not --Shak. 4. To design; to prepare; to plan to arrange. When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to point. --Chaucer. {Shaping machine}. (Mach.) Same as {Shaper}. {To shape one's self}, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.] I will early shape me therefor. --Chaucer. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: shaped adj : shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip"; "the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet" [syn: {molded}, {wrought}]
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