pret. shaped; pp. shaped or shapen.

To form or create. I was shapen in iniquity. Psalm 57:5.

To mold or make into a particular form; to give form or figure to; as, to shape a garment. Grace shap’d her limbs, and beauty deck’d her face.

To mold; to cast; to regulate; to adjust; to adapt to a purpose. He shapes his plans or designs to the temper of the times.

To direct; as, to shape a course.

To image; to conceive. Oft my jealousy . Shapes faults that are not.

To square; to suit; to be adjusted.

Form or figure as constituted by lines and angles; as the shape of a horse or a tree; the shape of the head, hand or foot.

External appearance. He beat me grievously in the shape of a woman.

The form of the trunk of the human boky; as a clumsy shape; an elegant shape.

A being as endowed with form. Before the gates are sat, On either side, a formidable shape. Milton.

Idea; pattern.

Form. This application comes before the legislature in the shape of a memorial.

Manner.