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Webster 1913 Edition


Misshape

Mis-shape′

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Verb.
T.
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.
“Figures monstrous and misshaped.”
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Webster 1828 Edition


Misshape

MISSHA'PE

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Verb.
T.
[See Shape.] To shape ill; to give an ill form to; to deform.
And horribly misshapes with ugly sights.
A misshaped figure.
Misshapen mountains.

Definition 2024


misshape

misshape

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Noun

misshape (plural misshapes)

  1. (obsolete) A misshapen person; a misshapen body. [14th-17th c.]
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.12:
      The one of them, that elder did appeare, / With her dull eyes did seeme to looke askew, / That her mis-shape much helpt [...].
  2. A misshapen object; now especially, a broken item (especially food) sold individually at a cheaper price. [from 19th c.]
    • 1995, Jarvis Cocker et al., "Mis-Shapes":
      Mis-shapes, mistakes, misfits / Raised on a diet of broken biscuits.

Verb

misshape (third-person singular simple present misshapes, present participle misshaping, simple past and past participle misshaped)

  1. To shape badly or incorrectly. [from 15th c.]

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