My writing, all misshaped, uneven as my mind, Within this narrow space can hardly be confin'd.

Some figures monstrous and misshaped appear, Considered singly, or beheld too near, Which, but proportioned to their light or place, Due distance reconciles to form and grace.

O honourable Aubery de Vere, Let sorrow in a sable suit appear: Do not misshape her garment like delight; If it be grief, why cloth'st thou her in white? OX.

V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape.

On the very top of the hill clean-cut against the sky stood a great wind-misshaped pine.

There's more than one misshaped man in the world, I s'pose?" "I see an ocean liner," said the seer, who had appeared to be in a trance state during this colloquy.

Strangers interlope for a moment, and change destinies, coming out for a day, from nothing, and going to nowhere, but marring and misshaping everything.