The shape and structure of
anything, as distinguished from the material of which it is composed;
particular disposition or arrangement of matter, giving it
individuality or distinctive character; configuration; figure;
external appearance.
Constitution; mode of construction,
organization, etc.; system; as, a republican form of
government.
Established method of expression or
practice; fixed way of proceeding; conventional or stated scheme;
formula; as, a form of prayer.
Show without substance; empty, outside
appearance; vain, trivial, or conventional ceremony; conventionality;
formality; as, a matter of mere form.
Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also,
comeliness; elegance; beauty.
A shape; an image; a phantom.
That by which shape is given or
determined; mold; pattern; model.
A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of
students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in
society.
The seat or bed of a hare.
The type or other matter
from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a
chase.
The boundary line of a
material object. In painting, more generally, the human
body.
The particular shape or
structure of a word or part of speech; as, participial forms;
verbal forms.
The combination of
planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not
necessarily a closed solid.
That assemblage or
disposition of qualities which makes a conception, or that internal
constitution which makes an existing thing to be what it is; --
called essential or substantial form, and
contradistinguished from matter; hence, active or formative
nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea;
objectively, a law.
Mode of acting or manifestation to the
senses, or the intellect; as, water assumes the form of ice or
snow. In modern usage, the elements of a conception furnished by the
mind's own activity, as contrasted with its object or condition,
which is called the matter; subjectively, a mode of
apprehension or belief conceived as dependent on the constitution of
the mind; objectively, universal and necessary accompaniments or
elements of every object known or thought of.
The peculiar
characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the
structure of the parts of an animal or plant.
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