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Chaparajos. [Western U. S.]

er 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.

paring and bringing together the edges of the cleft. -- Staph`y*lo*raph"ic, Staph`y*lor*rhaph"ic, a.

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.,

Having a limber tongue. [R.] "A supple-chapped flatterer." Marston.

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

An operation to diminish the size of the opening between eyelids when enlarged by surrounding cicatrices.

Suture of a tendon.

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.

The operation of sewing up a laceration of the neck of the uterus.

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.

Having the form of the letter U; specif. (Phys. Geog.),

To remove from a chaplaincy.

The lower chaps or jaw. Paley.