Word Meanings - DIAMOND-SHAPED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus.
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- DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - DIAMONDIZE
To set with diamonds; to adorn; to enrich. Diamondizing of your subject. B. Jonson. - SHAPE
is from the strong verb, AS. scieppan, scyppan, sceppan, p. p. 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 - SHAPER
1. One who shapes; as, the shaper of one's fortunes. The secret of those old shapers died with them. Lowell. 2. That which shapes; a machine for giving a particular form or outline to an object. Specifically; A kind of planer in which the tool, - SHAPELY
1. Well-formed; having a regular shape; comely; symmetrical. T. Warton. Waste sandy valleys, once perplexed with thorn, The spiry fir and shapely box adorn. Pope. Where the shapely column stood. Couper. 2. Fit; suitable. Shaply for to - SHAPOO
The oörial. - RHOMBUS
See 1 - DIAMOND ANNIVERSARY; DIAMOND JUBILEE
One celebrated upon the completion of sixty, or, according to some, seventy-five, years from the beginning of the thing commemorated. - DIAMOND-BACK
The salt-marsh terrapin of the Atlantic coast (Malacoclemmys palustris). - SHAPELESS
Destitute of shape or regular form; wanting symmetry of dimensions; misshapen; -- opposed to Ant: shapely. -- Shape"less*ness, n. The shapeless rock, or hanging precipice. Pope. - DIAMOND
A pointed projection, like a four-sided pyramid, used for ornament in lines or groups. (more info) 1. A precious stone or gem excelling in brilliancy and beautiful play of prismatic colors, and remarkable for extreme hardness. Note: The diamond - DIAMONDED
1. Having figures like a diamond or lozenge. 2. Adorned with diamonds; diamondized. Emerson. - DIAMOND STATE
Delaware; -- a nickname alluding to its small size. - SHAPABLE
1. That may be shaped. 2. Shapely. "Round and shapable." De Foe. - SHAPELINESS
The quality or state of being shapely. - SHAPS
Chaparajos. A pair of gorgeous buckskin shaps, embroidered up the sides and adorned with innumerable ermine skins. The Century. - MISHAPPEN
To happen ill or unluckily. Spenser. - SPINDLE-SHAPED
Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends; fusiform; -- applied chiefly to roots. (more info) 1. Having the shape of a spindle. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - AWL-SHAPED
Subulate. See Subulate. Gray. (more info) 1. Shaped like an awl. - SWORD-SHAPED
Shaped like a sword; ensiform, as the long, flat leaves of the Iris, cattail, and the like. - FIDDLE-SHAPED
Inversely ovate, with a deep hollow on each side. Gray. - PEAR-SHAPED
Of the form of a pear. - EGG-SHAPED
Resembling an egg in form; ovoid. - LATH-SHAPED
Having a slender elongated form, like a lath; -- said of the feldspar of certain igneous rocks, as diabase, as seen in microscopic sections. - VASE-SHAPED
Formed like a vase, or like a common flowerpot. - SHIPSHAPE
Arranged in a manner befitting a ship; hence, trim; tidy; orderly. Even then she expressed her scorn for the lubbery executioner's mode of tying a knot, and did it herself in a shipshape orthodox manner. De Quincey. Keep everything shipshape, for - URN-SHAPED
Having the shape of an urn; as, the urn-shaped capsules of some mosses. - TRUMPET-SHAPED
Tubular with one end dilated, as the flower of the trumpet creeper. - WHIP-SHAPED
Shaped like the lash of a whip; long, slender, round, and tapering; as, a whip-shaped root or stem.