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Shaped like a pruning knife; cultrate.

Wedge-shaped; as, a cuneiform bone; -- especially applied to the wedge-shaped or arrowheaded characters of ancient Persian and Assyrian inscriptions. See Arrowheaded.

Having a curved form.

In the form of a cup, a little widened at the top.

Having the form of a cylinder.

Shaped like a boat; (Bot.) elongated and having the upper surface decidedly concave, as the glumes of many grasses.

Like or belonging to the swifts (Cypselidæ.)

To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak.

The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall.

Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.

One who deforms.

The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits deformity to mock my body. Shak.

Godlike, or of a godlike form. Dr. H. More.

Likeness to deity. [Obs.]

Resembling in structure a tree or shrub.

Having the form of a tooth or of teeth; tooth-shaped.

Irregular in form; -- opposed to uniform; anomalous; hence, unlike; dissimilar; as, to difform corolla, the parts of which do not correspond in size or proportion; difform leaves. The unequal refractions of difform rays. Sir I. Newton.

Irregularity of form; diversity of form; want of uniformity. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Formed like a finger or fingers; finger-shaped; as, a digitiform root.

Discoid.