Part 4513

<blockquote>Though well we may not pass upon his life Without the <b>form</b> of justice. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Orderly arrangement; shapeliness; also, comeliness; elegance; beauty.</def>

<blockquote>The earth was without <b>form</b> and void. <i>Gen. i. 2.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>He hath no <b>form</b> nor comeliness. <i>Is. liii. 2.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A shape; an image; a phantom.</def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>That by which shape is given or determined; mold; pattern; model.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <def>A long seat; a bench; hence, a rank of students in a school; a class; also, a class or rank in society.</def> "Ladies of a high <i>form</i>."

<i>Bp. Burnet.</i>

<p><b>9.</b> <def>The seat or bed of a hare.</def>

<blockquote>As in a <b>form</b> sitteth a weary hare. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>10.</b> <fld>(Print.)</fld> <def>The type or other matter from which an impression is to be taken, arranged and secured in a chase.</def>

<p><b>11.</b> <fld>(Fine Arts)</fld> <def>The boundary line of a material object. In <fld>painting</fld>, more generally, the human body.</def>

<p><b>12.</b> <fld>(Gram.)</fld> <def>The particular shape or structure of a word or part of speech; <as>as, participial <ex>forms</ex>; verbal <ex>forms</ex>.</as></def>

<p><b>13.</b> <fld>(Crystallog.)</fld> <def>The combination of planes included under a general crystallographic symbol. It is not necessarily a closed solid.</def>

<p><b>14.</b> <fld>(Metaph.)</fld> <def>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 <i>essential</i> or <i>substantial form</i>, and contradistinguished from <i>matter</i>; hence, active or formative nature; law of being or activity; subjectively viewed, an idea; objectively, a law.</def>

<p><b>15.</b> <def>Mode of acting or manifestation to the senses, or the intellect; <as>as, water assumes the <ex>form</ex> of ice or snow</as>. 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 <i>matter</i>; 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.</def>

<p><b>16.</b> <fld>(Biol.)</fld> <def>The peculiar characteristics of an organism as a type of others; also, the structure of the parts of an animal or plant.</def>

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<cs><mcol><col>Good form</col> &or; <col>Bad form</col></mcol>, <cd>the general appearance, condition or action, originally of horses, atterwards of persons; as, the members of a boat crew are said to be in <i>good form<i> when they pull together uniformly. The phrases are further used colloquially in description of conduct or manners in society; as, it is not <i>good form<i> to smoke in the presence of a lady.</cd></cs>

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<hw>Form</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Formed</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Forming</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[F. <ets>former</ets>, L. <ets>formare</ets>, fr. <ets>forma</ets>. See <er>Form</er>, <tt>n.</tt>]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To give form or shape to; to frame; to construct; to make; to fashion.</def>

<blockquote>God <b>formed</b> man of the dust of the ground. <i>Gen. ii. 7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The thought that labors in my <b>forming</b> brain. <i>Rowe.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>'T is education <b>forms</b> the common mind. <i>Pope.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thus <b>formed</b> for speed, he challenges the wind. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>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.</def>

<blockquote>The diplomatic politicians . . . who <b>formed</b> by far the majority. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>