Crossword clues for misshape
misshape
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misshape \Mis*shape"\, v. t.
To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.
``Figures monstrous and misshaped.''
--Pope.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) A misshapen person; a misshapen body. (14th-17th c.) 2 A misshapen object; now especially, a broken item (especially food) sold individually at a cheaper price. (from 19th c.) vb. To shape badly or incorrectly. (from 15th c.)
Usage examples of "misshape".
Their son looked like most Vulcan babies: rather green, very bald, his head a little pushed out of shape from the stress of delivery misshaping the soft fontanelles at the top of the skull.
The one pillar of its chapter house had given way, and the downrushing ruin had so crushed and distorted it, that thenceforth until some resurrection should arrive, disorder and misshape must appear to it the law of the universe, and loveliness but the passing dream of a brain glad to deceive its own misery, and so to fancy it had received from above what it had itself generated of its own poverty from below.
Moccasins just broadened her feet healthily, while she did not misshape them by running with the dogs in her childhood.
It was a dirty reeking room into which we entered, with men and women idling upon stools and cushions I know not if Daedalus could have made a labyrinth for such monsters, or Apelles have coloured such misshapes, but in plain sight they all took the form of pimps, strumpets and whores.
Dribeck had dropped to his knees, now beset by another misshaped foe as well, his sword arm pinned by its grasp.
We find them after hard buffeting, and usually, when we find the one fitted for us, our madness has misshaped our destiny, our lot is cast.
The sort simple people blame for every misshaped child or suddenly dead sheep?
Gleaners collected their particular prizesjewel-like gallstones, misshaped organs, bright green inix eyes, polished pebbles from erdlu gizzardsand sold them, no questions asked, to the highest bidder.
With misshaped hands to his mouth the tardy gave a cry as base as animal pain.
She uncovered a misshaped cookpot and poked in it with a long wooden spoon.
They could even stand some misshaping, but the consistency, while not chitinous, was like the thickest leather and tough enough to resist anything but very direct blows.
Beautiful forms still hinted at hidden misshaping, there were sly quirks of lips, a sidewise leer of eye.
He was aware of the box of shells misshaping his left pocket, and confidently fired three more shots towards the stream.
My gestational status did not in the least misshape my body, and I am, after all, a descendent of the House of Fairfax.
Dribeck had dropped to his knees, now beset by another misshaped foe as well, his sword arm pinned by its grasp.