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Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.

Of a linear shape.

Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.

To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.

Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.

Of the form of a pear.

To shape again.

Shaped like a saddle. Specifically:

Tubular, with a speading border. See Hypocraterimorphous.

her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for I must go Tennyson.

Having the shape of a spindle.

Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla.

The shape of a member especially adapted to structural purposes, esp. in giving the greatest strength with the least material. Hence, Colloq.,

Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like.

Having the form of a thread; filiform.

Shaped like a tongue; specifically (Bot.), linear or oblong, and fleshy, blunt at the end, and convex beneath; as, a tongue-shaped leaf.

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

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

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

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