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2,302 words match “HAP”

HEARTSHAPED a.
Having the shape of a heart; cordate.
HELMET-SHAPED a.
Shaped like a helmet; galeate. See Illust. of Galeate.
INTERCHAPTER n.
An intervening or inserted chapter.
KIDNEY-FORM; KIDNEY-SHAPED a.
Having the form or shape of a kidney; reniform; as, a kidney- shaped leaf. Gray.
LATH-SHAPED a.
Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections.
LINEAR-SHAPED a.
Of a linear shape.
LOZENGED; LOZENGE-SHAPED a.
Having the form of a lozenge or rhomb. The lozenged panes of a very small latticed window. C. Bronté.
MAYHAP adv.
Perhaps; peradventure. [Prov. or Dialectic]
MISHAP n. 2 definitions
il accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.
MISHAPPEN v.
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser.
MISHAPPY a.
Unhappy. [Obs.]
MISSHAPE v.
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.
MISSHAPEN a.
Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.
OVERHAPPY a.
Exceedingly happy. Shak.
PEAR-SHAPED a.
Of the form of a pear.
PERHAPS adv.
By chance; peradventure; perchance; it may be. And pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee. Acts viii. 22.
PERINEORRHAPHY n.
The operation of sewing up a ruptured perineum.
PETTICHAPS n.
See Pettychaps.
PETTYCHAPS n.
Any one of several species of small European singing birds of the subfamily Sylviinæ, as the willow warbler, the chiff-chaff, and the golden warbler (Sylvia hortensis).
RESHAPE v.
To shape again.
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