Chaucer.
Shape (shp), v. i. To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. [R.] Shak.
Shape, n. [OE. shap, schap, AS. sceap in gesceap creation, creature,
fr. the root of scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, to shape, to do, to effect;
akin to OS. giskeppian, OFries. skeppa, D. scheppen, G. schaffen, OHG.
scaffan, scepfen, skeffen, Icer. skapa, skepja, Dan. skabe, skaffe, Sw.
skapa, skaffa, Goth. gaskapjan, and perhaps to E. shave, v. Cf. -ship.]
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.