Word Meanings - GASHFUL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton.
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- GASHFUL
Full of gashes; hideous; frightful. "A gashful, horrid, ugly shape." Gayton. - 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 - FRIGHTFUL
1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn. - HORRIDLY
In a horrid manner. Shak. - HORRIDNESS
The quality of being horrid. - FRIGHTFULNESS
The quality of being frightful. - FRIGHTFULLY
In a frightful manner; to a frightful dagree. - 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 - HIDEOUS
hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. - 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. - HORRID
1. Rough; rugged; bristling. Horrid with fern, and intricate with thorn. Dryden. 2. Fitted to excite horror; dreadful; hideous; shocking; hence, very offensive. Not in the legions Of horrid hell. Shak. The horrid things they say. Pope. Syn. -- - SHAPELINESS
The quality or state of being shapely. - 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. - DIAMOND-SHAPED
Shaped like a diamond or rhombus. - STRAP-SHAPED
Shaped like a strap; ligulate; as, a strap-shaped corolla. - ORCHIDEOUS
See ORCHIDACEOUS - 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. - AFFRIGHTFUL
Terrifying; frightful. -- Af*fright"ful*ly, adv. Bugbears or affrightful apparitions. Cudworth. - 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.