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Under the usual shape or size; small; dwarfish. [Poetic] His dwarf, a vicious undershapen thing. Tennyson.

Ill luck; misfortune. [Obs.] "The cause of her unhap." Sir P. Sidney.

Made unhappy. [Obs.] Shak.

Not happy or fortunate; unfortunate; unlucky; as, affairs have taken an unhappy turn.

To deprive of shape, or of proper shape; to disorder; to confound; to derange. [R.] Shak.

Not shaped; shapeless; misshapen; deformed; ugly.

Suture of the palate. See Staphyloraphy.

Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses.

Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot.

Having the shape of a wedge; cuneiform.

To throw one's self quickly, or by an abrupt motion; to turn suddenly; as, she whapped down on the floor; the fish whapped over. Bartlett.

Something uncommonly large of the kind; something astonishing; -- applied especially to a bold lie. [Colloq.]

Very large; monstrous; astonishing; as, a whapping story. [Colloq.]

Shaped like a wheel.

Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.

Shaped like a worm; as, a worm-shaped root.

In church or chapel style; -- said of compositions sung in the old church style, without instrumental accompaniment; as, a mass a capella, i. e., a mass purely vocal.

Perhaps. [Scot.]

ed to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest.

An omen. [Obs.] High-thundering Juno's husband stirs my spirit with true abodes. Chapman.