資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shape \Shape\ (sh[=a]p), v. t. [imp. {Shaped} (sh[=a]pt); p. p.
   {Shaped} or {Shapen} (sh[=a]p"'n); p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Shaping}.] [OE. shapen, schapen, AS. sceapian. The p. p.
   shapen is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan,
   sceppan, p. p. sceapen. See {Shape}, n.]
   1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a
      particular form; to give proper form or figure to.

            I was shapen in iniquity.             --Ps. li. 5.

            Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
                                                  --Prior.

   2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct;
      as, to shape the course of a vessel.

            To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor
            speed nor art avail, he shapes his course. --Denham.

            Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And
            shape my foolishness to their desire. --Prior.

   3. To image; to conceive; to body forth.

            Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not. --Shak.

   4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.

            When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to
            point.                                --Chaucer.

   {Shaping machine}. (Mach.) Same as {Shaper}.

   {To shape one's self}, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.]

            I will early shape me therefor.       --Chaucer.