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 image; to conceive; to body forth.-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.-a piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.