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s passing. The metal is generally in the form of a bar, either straight, or bent into the shape of a horseshoe.

Pertaining to, or shaped like, an ellipsoid; as, ellipsoid or ellipsoidal form.

To form like a bowl; to give a globular shape to. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

That degree of softness in a body beginning to melt which alters its shape; the first or lowest degree of fusibility.

A genus of extinct Cretaceous fishes; -- so named from their spear-shaped teeth. They were allied to the pike (Esox).

Having sword-shaped leaves, or appendages; ensiform.

Having the form of a sword blade; sword-shaped; as, an ensiform leaf. Ensiform cartilage, and Ensiform process. (Anat.) See Xiphisternum.

Saddle-shaped; occupying an ephippium. Dana.

A saddle-shaped cavity to contain the winter eggs, situated on the back of Cladocera.

See Equine. "An equinal shape." Heywood.

tion; not inverted; not leaning or bent; not prone; as, to stand erect. Two of far nobler shape, erect and tall. Milton. Among the Greek colonies and churches of Asia, Philadelphia is still erect -- a column of ruins. Gibbon.

ased condition of rye and other cereals, in which the grains become black, and often spur-shaped. It is caused by a parasitic fungus, Claviceps purpurea.

Shaped into one; tending to, or formative into, unity. [R.] Coleridge.

the tympanum of the ear to the pharynx. See Ear. -- Eustachian valve (Anat.), a crescent-shaped fold of the lining membrane of the heart at the entrance of the vena cava inferior. It directs the blood towards the left auricle in the fetus, but is rudimentary and functionless in the adult.

To form by hollowing; to shape, as a cavity, or anything that is hollow; as, to excavate a canoe, a cellar, a channel.

or surface of a body. Of all external things, . . . She [Fancy] forms imaginations, aery shapes. Milton.

ng) flat or smooth; to dress the face of (a stone, a casting, etc.); esp., in turning, to shape or smooth the flat surface of, as distinguished from the cylindrical surface.

A bundle of pieces of wrought iron to be worked over into bars or other shapes by rolling or hammering at a welding heat; a pile.

Bluebird. -- Fairy martin (Zoöl.), a European swallow (Hirrundo ariel) that builds flask-shaped nests of mud on overhanging cliffs. -- Fairy rings or circles, the circles formed in grassy lawns by certain fungi (as Marasmius Oreades), formerly supposed to be caused by fairies in their midnight dances. -- Fairy shrim…

Having the shape of a scithe or sickle; resembling a reaping hook; as, the falciform ligatment of the liver.