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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Forming \Form"ing\, n. The act or process of giving form or shape to anything; as, in shipbuilding, the exact shaping of partially shaped timbers. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Form \Form\ (f[ocir]rm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Formed} (f[ocir]rmd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Forming}.] [F. former, L. formare, fr. forma. See {Form}, n.] 1. To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion. God formed man of the dust of the ground. --Gen. ii. 7. The thought that labors in my forming brain. --Rowe. 2. To give a particular shape to; to shape, mold, or fashion into a certain state or condition; to arrange; to adjust; also, to model by instruction and discipline; to mold by influence, etc.; to train. 'T is education forms the common mind. --Pope. Thus formed for speed, he challenges the wind. --Dryden. 3. To go to make up; to act as constituent of; to be the essential or constitutive elements of; to answer for; to make the shape of; -- said of that out of which anything is formed or constituted, in whole or in part. The diplomatic politicians . . . who formed by far the majority. --Burke. 4. To provide with a form, as a hare. See {Form}, n., 9. The melancholy hare is formed in brakes and briers. --Drayton. 5. (Gram.) To derive by grammatical rules, as by adding the proper suffixes and affixes. | |
