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To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform. "Figures monstrous and misshaped." Pope.

Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.

The back part of the neck. Spenser.

An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.

Table linen; also, linen clothing, or linen in general. [Obs.] Gayton.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Napier, or Naper. Naperian logarithms. See under Logarithms.

of a spring tide, so that it will not float till the next spring tide; -- called also beneaped.

A sheet of paper printed and distributed, at stated intervals, for conveying intelligence of passing events, advocating opinions, etc.; a public print that circulates news, advertisements, proceedings of legislative bodies, public announcements, etc.

Writing paper, not exceeding in size, when folded once, five by eight inches.

An evergreen species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), of Oregon and California; also, its roundish, blue-black berries.

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

A spiritual father; specifically, the pope. [Obs.]

A popinjay. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A printed or written instrument; a document, essay, or the like; a writing; as, a paper read before a scientific society. They brought a paper to me to be signed. Dryden.

See under Paper, n.

Like paper; having the thinness or consistence of paper. Gray.

Containing or producing pap; like pap. [R.] Arbuthnot.

A female pope; i. e., the fictitious pope Joan. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A case or box containing paper and materials for writing.