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its teeth to the tops of rocks to feed upon the dew. And greedly rosmarines with visages deforme. Spenser.

A deformed condition of the skull, in which the vault is narrow, clongated, and more or less boat-shaped.

The coarse file . . . makes deep scratches in the work. Moxon. These nails with scratches deform my breast. Prior. God forbid a shallow scratch should drive The prince of Wales from such a field as this. Shak.

A person who is marked or deformed by nature. Shak.

With a stigma, or mark of infamy or deformity.

to the operation of forming a mouth where the aperture has been contracted, or in any way deformed.

se." Longfellow. It is time that there were an end and surcease made of this immodest and deformed manner of writing. Bacon.

The deformity called clubfoot. See Clubfoot.

of ten in one; ten times repeated. The grisly Terror . . . grew tenfold More dreadful and deform. Milton.

In an ugly manner; with deformity.

ght; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed. The ugly view of his deformed crimes. Spenser. Like the toad, ugly and venomous. Shak. O, I have passed a miserable night, So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams. Shak.

Wanting regular features; deformed. "Visage rough, deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff." Dryden.

Not shaped; shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

A deformity in which the foot is turned inward. See Talipes.

hence, any roughness; unevenness. Not the least wrinkle to deform the sky. Dryden.

A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.

Having a distorted neck; having the deformity called wryneck.