To form; make; create; construct.
To give shape or form to; cut, mold, or make into a particular form: as, to shape a garment; to shape a vessel on the potters' wheel.
To adapt, as to a purpose; cause to conform; adjust; regulate: with to or unto.
To form with the mind; plan; contrive; devise; arrange; prepare.
To get ready; address (one's self to do something).
To direct (one's course); betake (one's self): as, to shape one's course homeward.
To image; conceive; call or conjure up.
To dress; array.
To destine; foreordain; predestine.
To take shape or form; be or become adapted, fit, or comformable.
To turn out; happen.
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An obsolete form of the past participle of shape.
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In Tibet, a privy councillor; one of the five who advise the Tibetan regent in state affairs.
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Form; figure; outward contour, aspect, or appearance; hence, guise: as, the two things are dissimilar in shape; the shape of the head; in man's shape.
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That which was form or figure; a mere form, image, or figure; an appearance; a phantasm.
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Concrete embodiment or form, as of a thought, conception, or quality.
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Appearance; guise; dress; disguise; specifically, a theatrical costume (a complete dress).
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Way; manner.
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In industrial art:
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A pattern to be followed by workmen; especially, a flat pattern to guide a cutter.