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To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange. [R.] Shak.

Not shaped; shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

Piled up; accumulated. God, which shall repay all with upheaped measure. Udall.

Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.

Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.

A kind of cotton crape.

Cast down; crushed by misery; dejected. [Obs.]

hundred in other counties. Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, and Nottinghamshire are divided into wapentakes, instead of hundreds. [Written also wapentac.] Selden. Blackstone.

A sea view; -- distinguished from landscape. [Jocose] Fairholt.

Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.

Shaped like a wheel.

Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.

Shaped like a worm; as, a worm-shaped root.

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

A plant with a tall flowering stem; esp. the great mullein, or hag-taper, and the golden-rod.

er; powerful; as, the ablest man in the senate; an able speech. No man wrote abler state papers. Macaulay.

Violation; rape; as, abuse of a female child. [Obs.] Or is it some abuse, and no such thing Shak. Abuse of distress (Law), a wrongful using of an animal or chattel distrained, by the distrainer.

Shaped like or resembling a mite.

One of the functionaries who light and trim the tapers.

A property or quality of a thing which is not essential to it, as whiteness in paper; an attribute.