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In the form of pus.

Having the form of a pear; pear-shaped.

Having the form of a raceme. Gray.

Having the marginal florets enlarged and radiating but not ligulate, as in the capitula or heads of the cornflower, Gray.

Having the nature or appearance of a radix or root.

Rasplike; as, raduliform teeth.

Having the form of a branch.

To give a new form to; to form anew; to take form again, or to take a new form; as, to re-form the line after a charge.

The act of forming anew; a second forming in order; as, the reformation of a column of troops into a hollow square.

To put into a new and improved form or condition; to restore to a former good state, or bring from bad to good; to change from worse to better; to amend; to correct; as, to reform a profligate man; to reform corrupt manners or morals. The example alone of a vicious prince will corrupt an age; but that of a good one wil…

Capable of being reformed. Foxe.

A reformado. [Obs.]

A monk of a reformed order. [Obs.] Weever.

To affect reformation; to pretend to correctness. [R.]

The act of reforming, or the state of being reformed; change from worse to better; correction or amendment of life, manners, or of anything vicious or corrupt; as, the reformation of manners; reformation of the age; reformation of abuses. Satire lashes vice into reformation. Dryden.

Forming again; having the quality of renewing form; reformatory. Good.

Tending to produce reformation; reformative.

llence; said, specifically, of the whole body of Protestant churches originating in the Reformation. Also, in a more restricted sense, of those who separated from Luther on the doctrine of consubstantiation, etc., and carried the Reformation, as they claimed, to a higher point. The Protestant churches founded by them i…

One who effects a reformation or amendment; one who labors for, or urges, reform; as, a reformer of manners, or of abuses.

A reformer.