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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shaped
adj
  1. shaped to fit by or as if by altering the contours of a pliable mass (as by work or effort); "a shaped handgrip"; "the molded steel plates"; "the wrought silver bracelet"
    Synonym(s): shaped, molded, wrought
  2. having the shape of; "a square shaped playing field"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Shape \Shape\ (sh[amac]p), v. t. [imp. {Shaped} (sh[amac]pt); p.
      p. {Shaped} or {Shapen} (sh[amac]p"'n); p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Shaping}.] [OE. shapen, schapen, AS. sceapian. The p. p.
      shapen is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan,
      sceppan, p. p. sceapen. See {Shape}, n.]
      1. To form or create; especially, to mold or make into a
            particular form; to give proper form or figure to.
  
                     I was shapen in iniquity.                  --Ps. li. 5.
  
                     Grace shaped her limbs, and beauty decked her face.
                                                                              --Prior.
  
      2. To adapt to a purpose; to regulate; to adjust; to direct;
            as, to shape the course of a vessel.
  
                     To the stream, when neither friends, nor force, Nor
                     speed nor art avail, he shapes his course. --Denham.
  
                     Charmed by their eyes, their manners I acquire, And
                     shape my foolishness to their desire. --Prior.
  
      3. To image; to conceive; to body forth.
  
                     Oft my jealousy Shapes faults that are not. --Shak.
  
      4. To design; to prepare; to plan; to arrange.
  
                     When shapen was all this conspiracy, From point to
                     point.                                                --Chaucer.
  
      {Shaping machine}. (Mach.) Same as {Shaper}.
  
      {To shape one's self}, to prepare; to make ready. [Obs.]
  
                     I will early shape me therefor.         --Chaucer.
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