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nfinite branches, which have a common asymptote. The curve has a double point, and a leaf-shaped loop; whence the name. Its equation is x3 + y3 = axy.

Having a foot or feet; shaped in the foot. "Footed like a goat." Grew.

The caudal forceps-shaped appendage of earwigs and some other insects. See Earwig. Dressing forceps. See under Dressing.

To form by heating and hammering; to beat into any particular shape, as a metal. Mars's armor forged for proof eterne. Shak.

The act of forging metal into shape. [Obs.] Useless the forgery Of brazen shield and spear. Milton.

Anything furcate or like of a fork in shape, or furcate at the extremity; as, a tuning fork.

Formed into a forklike shape; having a fork; dividing into two or more prongs or branches; furcated; bifurcated; zigzag; as, the forked lighting. A serpent seen, with forked tongue. Shak.

A suffix used to denote in the form or shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing.

The shape and size of a book; hence, its external form.

The act of giving form or shape to anything; a forming; a shaping. Beattie.

A shape around which an article is to be shaped, molded, woven wrapped, pasted, or otherwise constructed.

The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers.

Shapeless; without a determinate form; wanting regularity of shape. -- Form"less*ly, adv. -- Form"less*ness, n.

To fit to something else, or for some specific end; to adjust; to regulate; to shape; to conform. And frame my face to all occasions. Shak. We may in some measure frame our minds for the reception of happiness. Landor. The human mind is framed to be influenced. I. Taylor.

motion by surface friction instead of teeth. The faces are sometimes made more or less V-shaped to increase or decrease friction, as required.

Full in form or shape; rounded out with flesh. The full-formed maids of Afric. Thomson.

Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

Shaped like a small fungus.

A vessel of the shape of an inverted hollow cone, terminating below in a pipe, and used for conveying liquids into a close vessel; a tunnel.