form (the foll. are obs. uses; 1 is a peculiarly S. use of an old sense; 2, 3 are not pre-S.)
1.
image,
likeness, portrait Gent. IV. iv.
205, Meas. II. iv. 127, LLL. II. i. 235,
John V. vii. 32
“I am a scribbled form,
drawn with a pen,”
Sonn. ix. 6.
2.
orderly arrangement,
good order
John III. iv. 101
“I will not keep this
upon my head When there is such disorder
in my wit”
; military formation
2H4 IV. i. 20
“In goodly form comes on
the enemy.”
3.
behaviour, pl.
manners
Gent. V. iv. 56
“change you to a milder
,”
Tw.N. V. i. 362
“cam'st . . . in such
form,”
Cæs. I. ii. 304
“he puts on this tardy
form.”
