Shape, n.
 1. Character or construction of a thing as determining its external appearance; outward aspect; make; figure; form; guise; as, the shape of a tree; the shape of the head; an elegant shape.
    He beat me grievously, in the shape of a woman.   --Shak.
 2. That which has form or figure; a figure; an appearance; a being.
 Before the gates three sat,
 On either side, a formidable shape.   --Milton.
 3. A model; a pattern; a mold.
 4. Form of embodiment, as in words; form, as of thought or conception; concrete embodiment or example, as of some quality.
 5. Dress for disguise; guise. [Obs.]
 Look better on this virgin, and consider
 This Persian shape laid by, and she appearing
 In a Greekish dress.   --Messinger.
 6. Iron Manuf. (a) A rolled or hammered piece, as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar. (b) A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted.
 To take shape, to assume a definite form.

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