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Having the shape of a top; (Bot.) cone-shaped, with the apex downward; turbinate.

Paper with a rough surface; esp., handmade paper of great hardness for the use of painters in water colors.

Paper steeped in saltpeter, which burns slowly, and is used as a match for firing gunpowder, and the like.

To transshape. [R.] J. Webster (1623).

To change into another shape or form; to transform. [Written also transhape.] Shak.

To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]

To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapeziform.

A trapezium. See Trapezium, 1.

Having the form of a trapezium; trapezoid.

A plane figure bounded by four right lines, of which no two are parallel.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a trapezohedron.

A solid bounded by twenty-four equal and similar trapeziums; a tetragonal trisoctahedron. See the Note under Trisoctahedron.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoidal; as, the trapezoid ligament which connects the coracoid process and the clavicle.

Having the form of a trapezoid; trapezoid.

Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper.

Having the form of the letter U; specif. (Phys. Geog.),

To remove a cap or cape from. [Obs.]

Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish. [Poetic] His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing. Tennyson.

To strip of drapery; to uncover or unveil.