shapeless 
larform; wanting symmetry of dimensions; de- 
formed ; amorphous. 
He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, 
Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere. 
Shak., C. of E., iv. 2. 20. 
The shapeless rock or hanging precipice. 
Pope, Essay on Criticism, 1. 158. 
2f. That has no shaping tendency or effect ; 
that effects nothing. 
Wear out thy gentle youth with shapeless idleness. 
Shak., T. O. of V., i. 1. 8. 
shapelessness (shap'les-nes), n. Shapeless 
character or condition; lack of regular or defi- 
nite form. 
Shapeliness (shiip'li-nes), n. [< ME. schaply- 
nesse; < shapely + -ness.] The state of being 
shapely ; beauty of form, 
shapely (shap'li), a. [< ME. shapely, schaply, 
shapelich, schapelich; < shape, n., + -ly 1 .] I. 
Well-formed; having a regular and pleasing 
shape; symmetrical. 
Unknown to those primeval sires 
The well-arch'd dome, peopled with breathing forms 
By fair Italia's skilful hand, unknown 
The shapely column. J. Warton, Enthusiast. 
The moon on the east oriel shone 
Through slender shafts of shapely stone. 
Scott, L. of L. M., ii. 11. 
2f. Fit; likely. 
Tho sleightes yit that I have herd yow steere, 
Ful shapely ben to faylen alle yfeere. 
Chaucer, Troilus, iv. 1450. 
shapent. An obsolete past participle of shape. 
shaper (sha'per), n. [< ME. shapere, schapare 
(= OHG. scaffari, MHG. schaffeere, G. schopfer = 
5551 
MabyllthesAsputer. . . maketh surplys, shertes, breches, 
keverchiffs, and all that may be w 
share 
[Some take the word here to be shard-born, ' produced in 
shard or dung.') 
rvrought of lynuen cloth. = - , 
Caxton, Boke for Travellers. (Nares.) sharded (sharded), a. [< shard 1 + -ed'.] 
shaping (sha'ping), n. [< ME. sliapyng; verbal 
n. of shape, v.] 1. The act of forming or re- 
ducing to shape. Specifically 2f. The cutting 
and fitting of clothes; tailoring. 
Ye [tailors] schall take no howse to okepaey shapyng 
unto th tyme ye be amyttyd, by th M. and VVardons, 
gode and abell to okewpy shapynlg}. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 317. 
3. Representation ; imagination ; that which is 
formed or imagined. 
How oft, my Love, with shapings sweet 
I paint the moment we shall meet ! 
Coleridge, Lines written at Shurton Bars. 
shaping-machine (sha'ping-ma-shen"), n. 1. 
A shaper. 2. In block-making", a machine for 
turning the outsides of wooden blocks for 
tackle and rigging, consisting essentially of a 
rotating horizontal wheel to the periphery of 
Having shards or elytra, as a beetle; coleop- 
terous. 
Often, to our comfort, shall we find 
The sharded beetle in a safer hold 
Than is the full-wing'd eagle. 
Shak., Cymbeline, iii. 3. 20. 
shardy (shiir'di), a. [< shard*- + -i/ 1 .] Resem- 
bling a shard; like shards; sharded. 
The hornet's shardy wings. 
J. S. Drake, Culprit Fay, vii. 
share 1 (shar), n. [Early mod. E. also schare; 
< ME. schare, schere, < AS. scearu, *scaru, scaro, 
a cutting, shearing, tonsure, also a part or di- 
vision (chiefly in comp., land-scearu, a share of 
land, folc-scearu, a division of the people, etc.), 
< sceran (pret. scser, pp. scoren), cut, shear: see 
shear*. Identity of the AS. word with OHG. 
slcara, MHG. schar, G. schaar, schar, troop, 
which a series of blocks are fixed, and brought tost, division of an army, is not probable, as 
against a cutter which moves in an arc. When the orig. (OHG.) sense appears to be troop. 
one face of the block has been cut, the wheel is stopped, Cf. share 2 , share*.] If. A piece cut off; a part 
and the blocks are turned one quarter round to receive cu t out; a cut; a slice. 
the next cut. 
3. In hat-making, a machine, adjustable for va- 
rious sizes, forgiving the final blocking to hats. 
shapournet, n. In her., another form of cha- 
pournet. 
Frae her sark he cut a share. 
Clerk Colvill (Child's Ballads, I. 193). 
shaps (shaps), n. pi. [Abbr. of Sp. chaparejos.] 
Stiff leather riding-overalls or -leggings. [West- 
ern U. S.] 
The spurs, bit, and revolver silver-mounted, the shaps 
of sealskin, etc. T. Roosevelt, Hunting Trips, p. 8. 
Icel. skapari = Sw. skapare = Dan. skaber), < gfcarbatt, n. An obsolete form of sherbet. 
shape +' -eri.] 1. One who makes, forms, or 
shapes. 
The Lord thi shapere, that bente heuenes, and foundede 
the erthe. Vydif, Isa. 11. 13. 
Unconsciously, and as it were in spite of themselves, 
the shapers and transmitters of poetic legend have pre- 
served for us masses of sound historical evidence. 
E. B. Tylor, Prim. Culture, I. 376. 
2. In metalr-work, a combined lathe and planer, 
which can be used, with attachments, for do- 
A large share it hewd out of the rest. 
Spenser, F. Q., I. ii. 18. 
2. A part or portion. 
I found afterwards they expected I should let them 
have a share of everything I had ; for it is the nature of 
the Arabs to desire whatever they see. 
Pococke, Description of the East, I. 81. 
The gold could not be granted, 
The gallows pays a share, 
And it 's for mine offence I must die. 
William Guiseman (Child's Ballads, III. 52). 
(shard), n. [Also sherd, and formerly 
shear A (So. shaird) ; < ME. sclierd, scheard, shord, 
schord, scheord, < AS. sceard, a broken piece, a 
fragment (= MD. schaerde, a fragment, a crack, 
D. schaard, a fragment, a shard, = MLG.scftnrt, , ,, DV > Jiiv< iv ,,. . 
LG. schaard, a fragment, a crack, = G. scharte, ber of equa j parts into which the cap it a l stock 
a shard) ; < sceard, broken, cut off _(= OS ; seora of a trading company or corporation is or may 
be divided: as, shares in a bank; shares in a 
railway ; a ship owned in ten shares. See stock. 
I thinke it conscionable and reasonable yt you should 
3. A part or definite portion of a thing owned 
by a number in common ; that part of an undi- 
vided interest which belongs to any one of the 
proprietors; specifically, one of the whole num- 
Shaper for Metals. 
a, frame; 6, b, horizontal ways; c, c, vertical ways; d, work- 
table ; d', extra detachable work-table ; e, screw for vertical adjust- 
ment of the table if," f, adjusting-crank ; g, vise for holding work ; 
ft, screw for vertical adjustment ofvise ; i, crank-shaft which operates 
gear for adjustment of vise; /, cone-pulley which drives the feed- 
mechanism and the cutter-head or -stock k, which moves either verti- 
cally, or in lines inclined to the vertical, or longitudinally on the ways 
b, or transversely in the transverse way /, or in directions compounded 
of two or more of these motions ; m, vertical hand-adjusting screw for 
cutter-head k; n, longitudinally adjusting hand-wheel operating a 
pinion engaging a rack, for longitudinal movement by hand of the 
saddle & on the ways A: f, quick return transverse stroke gear; q, 
feed-mechanism forsaddleo; r, mandrel for holding work ; s, centers 
for chucking work to be rotated by hand. 
= OFries. skerde = OHG. scart, MHG. schart = 
Icel. skardhr, diminished, hacked) : with orig. 
pp. suffix -d (see -d 2 , -ed 2 ), < sceran, cut, shear: 
see shear 1 , and cf . shard'2. In the sense of 'shell' 
or ' wing-case ' shard 1 may be due in part to OF. 
escharde, F. echarde, a splinter, = Olt. scarda, 
scale, shell, scurf.] 1. A piece or fragment, 
as of an earthen vessel ; a potsherd ; a fragment 
of any hard material. 
For charitable prayers, 
Shards, flints, and pebbles should be thrown on her. 
Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 254. 
And scarce ought now of that vast City 's found 
But Shards and Rubbish, which weak Signs might keep 
Of forepast Glory, and bid Travellers weep. 
Cowley, Davideis, ii. 
And when the auld moon 's gaun to lea'e them 
The hindmost shaird, they'll fetch it wi' them. 
Burns, To William Simpson. 
2. A scale; a shell, as of an egg or a snail. 
A dragon whos scherdes schinen as the sonne. 
Gamer, Conf. Amant., III. 68. 
3. The wing-cover or elytrum of a beetle. 
They are his shards, and he their beetle. 
Shak., A. andC., iii. 2. 19. 
Like the shining shards of beetles. 
Longfellow, Hiawatha, xii. 
shard 2 (shard), . [< ME. "shard (not found in 
this sense ?), prob. < Icel. skardh = D. schaard 
= MLG. schart, a notch, = OHG. scarti, MHG. 
beare your shares and proportion of y e stock. 
Sherley, quoted in Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 259. 
4. An allotted part ; the part that falls to, or 
belongs naturally or of right to, one in any di- 
vision or distribution among a number; appor- 
tioned lot: as, to have more than a f airfare 
of work, responsibility, or blame ; to claim a 
share in the profits. 
Such oft is the share of fatherlesse children. 
Capt. John Smith, True Travels, I. 2. 
Their worth and learning cast a greater share of busi- 
nesse upon them. Milton, Prelatical Episcopacy. 
While Fortune favoured . . . 
I made some figure there ; nor was my name 
Obscure, nor I without my share of fame. 
Dryden, ,Kndd, ii. 115. 
And, oh ! when Passion rules, how rare 
The hours that fall to Virtue s share ! 
Scott, Rokeby, v. 23. 
Deferred shares. See de/erz, v. t. Lion's share. See 
lion. Ordinary shares, the shares which form the com- 
mon stock of a company or corporation. Preference 
shares, or preferred shares. See preference. Share 
and share alike, in equal shares : used to indicate a divi- 
sion in which all share alike, or are equally interested. 
To go Shares. Same as to go halves (which see, under go). 
= Syn. 2. Portion, Division, etc. See part. 3 and 4. In- 
terest, allotment, apportionment, quota. 
ing a great variety of work. 3. A form of G scharte, a notch, cut, fissure,' saw-wort; of share 1 (shar), v. ; pret. and pp. shared, ppr 
stamping-machine or stamping-press for sheet- 
metal. 4. In wood-working, a paneling- or 
molding-machine for cutting moldings of irreg- 
ular forms. 
shaperoont, n. An obsolete form of chaperon. 
J. Taylor. 
shaper-plate (sha'per-plat), n. A pattern- 
plate, as a plate in a lathe, by which the cut of 
the tool is regulated. E. H. Knight. 
shaper- vise (sha'per- vis), n. A form of vise for 
holding the work to a planer at any horizontal 
angle. E. H. Knight. 
shapesmith (shap'smith), n. [< shape + smith.] 
One who undertakes to improve the form of the 
body. [Burlesque.] 
No shape-smith set up shop and drove a trade 
To mend the work wise Providence had made. 
Garth, Cleremont, 1. 98. 
shapestert, shapstert, . [< ME. shapster, 
sltepster, shappester; < shape + -ster.~\ A female 
cutter or shaper of garments; a milliner or 
dressmaker. 
like origin with shard* namely, < AS. sceard 
= OHG. scart = Icel. skardhr, etc., adj., cut, 
notched: see shard 1 .] 1. A notch. Halliwell. 
2. A gap in a fence. Stanihurst. 3. An 
opening in a wood. Halliwell. 4. A bourn or 
boundary; a division. 
Upon that shore he spyed Atin stand, 
There by his maister left, when late he far'd 
In Pheedrias flitt barck over that perlous shard. 
Spenser, F. Q., II. vi. 38. 
5. The leaves of the artichoke and some other 
vegetables whitened or blanched. 
Shards or mallows for the pot. 
Dryden, tr. of Horace's Epodes, ii. 82. 
[Obsolete or provincial in all uses.] 
shard 3 (shard), n. [Cf. shard*-, sharn.] Dung; 
excrement; ordure. [Prov. Eng.] 
Such souls as shards produce, such beetle things. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, i. 321. 
shard-beetle (shiird'be"tl), n. One of the Geo- 
tnjjiinse. 
Lyke a sha.ppeste r s sheres. Piers Plou-man (C), vii. 75. shard-bornet (shard'born), a. Borne along by 
Auenge me fele tymes other frete my-selue shards or scal y Wing-covers. [Rare.] 
The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums. 
Shak., Macbeth, iii. 2. 42. 
Wyth-inne, as a 
cursed ! 
ihepnter shere ; i-shrewed men and 
Piers Plowman (S), xiii. 331. 
sharing'. [< 'share^n.] I. trans. 1. To divide 
in portions ; apportion among two or more. 
He part of his small feast to her would share. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. viii. 6. 
The latest of my wealth I'll share amongst you. 
Shak., T. of A., iv. 2. 23. 
Take one day ; share it Into sections ; to each section 
apportion its task. Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxi. 
2. To partake, suffer, bear, or enjoy with 
others ; seize and possess jointly or in common. 
Great Jove with Csesar shares his sov'reign sway. 
Logic. (Latham.) 
In vain doth Valour bleed, 
While Avarice and Rapine share the land. 
Milton, Sonnets, x. 
Light is the task when many share the toil. 
Bryant, tr. of Homer's Iliad, xii. 493. 
3. To receive as one's portion ; enjoy or suf- 
fer ; experience. 
When their brave hope, bold Hector, march'd to field, 
Stood many Trojan mothers, sharing joy 
To see their youthful sons bright weapons wield. 
Shak., Lucrece, 1. 1431. 
= Syn. Participate, etc. See partake. 
II. intrans. To have part; get one's portion; 
be a sharer ; partake. 
