To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct; as, to shape the course of a vessel.
To imagine; to conceive; to call forth (ideas).
To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
To suit; to be adjusted or conformable.
Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
A model; a pattern; a mold.
Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
Dress for disguise; guise.
A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar.
The act or art of weaving.
That which woven; a woven fabric; a web.
The disposition or connection of threads, filaments, or other slender bodies, interwoven; as, the texture of cloth or of a spider's web.
The disposition of the several parts of any body in connection with each other, or the manner in which the constituent parts are united; structure; as, the texture of earthy substances or minerals; the texture of a plant or a bone; the texture of paper; a loose or compact texture.
A tissue. See Tissue.
To form a texture of or with; to interweave.