#240. Form.窶年. form, figure, shape; conformation, configuration;
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make, formation, frame, construction, cut, set, build, trim, cut of
one's
jib; stamp, type, cast, mold; fashion; contour &c. (outline) 230;
structure
&c. 329; plasmature[obs3].
feature, lineament, turn; phase &c. (aspect) 448; posture,
attitude,
pose.
[Science of form] morphism.
[Similarity of form] isomorphism.
forming &c. v.; formation, figuration, efformation[obs3];
sculpture;
plasmation[obs3].
V. form, shape, figure, fashion, efform[obs3], carve, cut, chisel,
hew, cast; rough hew, rough cast; sketch; block out, hammer out; trim;
lick
into shape, put into shape; model, knead, work up into, set, mold,
sculpture; cast, stamp; build &c. (construct) 161.
Adj. formed &c. v.
[Receiving form] plastic, fictile[obs3]; formative; fluid.
[Giving form] plasmic[obs3].
[Similar in form] isomorphous.
[taking several forms] pleomorphic; protean; changeable, &c. 149.
#241. [Absence of form.] Amorphism.窶年. amorphism[obs3],
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informity[obs3]; unlicked cub[obs3]; rudis indigestaque moles[Lat];
disorder &c. 59; deformity &c. 243.
disfigurement, defacement; mutilation; deforming.
chaos, randomness (disorder) 59.
[taking form from surroundings] fluid &c. 333.
V. deface[Destroy form], disfigure, deform, mutilate, truncate;
derange &c. 61; blemish, mar.
Adj. shapeless, amorphous, formless; unformed, unhewn[obs3],
unfashioned[obs3], unshaped, unshapen; rough, rude, Gothic, barbarous,
rugged.
#242. [Regularity of form.] Symmetry.窶年. symmetry, shapeliness,
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finish; beauty &c. 845; proportion, eurythmy[obs3], uniformity,
parallelism; bilateral symmetry, trilateral symmetry, multilateral
symmetry; centrality &c. 222.
arborescence[obs3], branching, ramification; arbor vitae.
Adj. symmetrical, shapely, well set, finished; beautiful &c. 845;
classic, chaste, severe.
regular, uniform, balanced; equal &c. 27; parallel, coextensive.
arborescent[obs3], arboriform[obs3]; dendriform[obs3],
dendroid[obs3];
branching; ramous[obs3], ramose; filiciform[obs3], filicoid[obs3];
subarborescent[obs3]; papilionaceous[obs3].
fuji-shaped, fujigata[Jap.].
#243. [Irregularity of form.] Distortion.窶年. distortion,
detortion[obs3], contortion; twist, crookedness &c. (obliquity) 217;
grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation[obs3]; harelip;
monstrosity, misproportion[obs3], want of symmetry, anamorphosis[obs3];
ugliness &c. 846; talipes[obs3]; teratology. asymmetry; irregularity.
V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform,
misshape. Adj. distorted &c. v.; out of shape, irregular, asymmetric,
unsymmetric[obs3], awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight;
on one side, crump[obs3], deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten;
misproportioned[obs3], ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque,
monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch
backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged;
bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered;
snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy &c. (short)
201; gaunt &c. (thin) 203; bloated &c. 194; scalene; simous[obs3];
taliped[obs3], talipedic[obs3]. Adv. all manner of ways. Phr. crooked
as a Virginia fence [U.S.].