ihape

A thick ftrong mat, about two and one half, or three feet broad, bent into the form of a femicircle, and fet upon its edge, with the ends touching the fide of the houfe, in ihape refembling the fender of a fire-hearth, inclofes a fpace for the mafter and miftrefs of the family to fleep in.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

The inhabitants eat white bread made into a round ihape, but which we did not fancy.

Voyages and TRavels in All Parts of the World 1812

Girls who have been bred up, like you, in a private, frugal way, cannot mix with high company, without appearing very much out of charader, nor join in extravagant pleafures, without fuffering in fome ihape for their indifcre* tion/*

Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments,: Tending to Amuse ... 1797

Sands otjhelves are denoted by a great heap of little points placed in the ihape of thefe fands, as they have been found to lie in the ocean, by found - ing the depths.

The general gazetteer, or, Compendious geographical dictionary [microform] : containing a description of the empires, kingdoms, states, provinces, cities, towns, forts, seas, harbours, rivers, lakes, mountains, capes, &c. in the known world : with the government, customs, manners, and religion of the inhabitants; the extent, boundaries, and natural productions of each country, the trade, manufactures, and curiosities of the cities and towns; their longitude, latitude, bearings and distances in English miles from remarkable places; and the various events by which they have been distinguished : including an account of the counties, cities, boroughs, market-towns, and principal villages, in Great Britain and Ireland 1797

It is a vaft femicirdeofftgnes of very large dimenfions laid without mortar, connedl - ed only by their uniform ihape.

Encyclopædia britannica; 1797

A man may purchafe an annuity, on as low terms as he can; but if he fets out at firft with borrowing a fum of money, and then turns it into the ihape of an annuity afterwards, this is 1 ihift, and an evafion to avoid the ftatutes (1).

Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, in the time of Lord Chancellor Hardwicke. [1736-1754] Sanders, Francis Williams, 1769-1831, ed 1794

An excretory duct of a plant, in ihape of a bridle. —

The language of botany : being a dictionary of the terms made use of in that science, principally by Linneus ... 1793

Ships ought not to roll long and deep, and therefore ought not to be of this ihape, unlefs fome advantage arifes from it of ftill greater importance; which I believe is not the cafe.

Some Account of the Institution, Plan, and Present State, of the Society for the Improvement of ... 1792

Acre is a long narrow window, in the fols. of which lies a ftone iontf neatly cut in an odagonal ihape, and perforated im the

The statistical account of Scotland. Drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes 1791

It is this part of his tapital only which, within moderate periods of time, is continually returning to every dealer in the Ihape of money, whether paper or coin, and continually going from him in the fame ihape.

An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 1789