Form

form, n. The shape and structure of anything; configuration; frame; external appearance; a mental transcript or image; constitution; mode of construction, arrangement, organization, etc.; established method 0r practice; formula: show without substance; conventionality; formality; orderly arrangement; shapeline : comeline ; beauty; a shape; phantom; mold; pattern; model; a long bench or seat; a cla in a school; cla or rank in society; the seat or bed of a hare. (Print.) A page, or pages, imposed and locked up in a chase. (Phren.) Perception of form. See Phrenology. — v. t. [formed (f'6nnd), forming.] To give form or shape to; to construct, fashion; to model, train; to go to make up, act as constituent of; to provide with a form, as a hare. — Form'le , a. Shapele ; with-; linger or ink, then, boNboN, chair, get. out determinate form; irregular in shape. — Form'al, a. Pert, to the form, "external appearance, organization of a thing; pert, to the constitution of a thing, as disting. fr. the matter composing constitutive; e ential; done in due form, or solemnity'; expre : according to form; regular methodical; having: the form without the substance or e ence; dependent on form; conventional; cise; stiff; prim. — Formality, -I-ti, n. Condition or quality of being formal, expre , strictly compliance monious," with precise, conventional etc.; form without rules: substance ceremony conventionality; the formal part; e ence; an tablished order: usual and expre method. — mation, v. Act of giving form or shape to giving being to; manner in which a thing is formed; structure; construction. (Geol.) The series of belonging to an age, period, or epoch. (J/;7.) arrangement of troops, as in square, column, etc. For'mula. -la, «.; L. pi. -l.e. -le: E. pi. -las. -laz. prescribed or set form; established rule. — For'mulate, v. t. To reduce to, or expre in, a formula. 164